ESSENTIAL TOOLS FOR AVOIDING MATERIAL FUNCTIONAL FAILURE <br> <br> Offering comprehensive, organized, and detailed coverage, Henry Haslach and Ronald Armstrong’s <i>Deformable Bodies and Their Material Behavior</i> present a quantitative description of the mechanical behavior of a broad range of deformable bodies under widely differing conditions and at a level sufficient to match real behavior, and introduces the key tools needed to avoid material functional failure <br> <br> Covering stress and deformation analysis, material failure modes, and mechanical rest evaluations of material properties, this text provides the tools, insights, and knowledge needed to build a strong foundation for the design of mechanical devices. <ul&gt <li>Considers most types of materials: metals, ceramics, fibered composites, concrete biological tissue, rubber, polymers, and wood <li>Focuses on the relationships between material properties of a deformable body and the forces and displacements applied to its boundary <li>Helps develop an appreciation for the approximations made in producing the mathematical models intended to predict mechanical response <li>Provides historical background on the definitions and models that designers commonly use, describing the practical reasons why these tools were invented </ul>