This book covers solid mechanics for non-linear elastic and elastoplastic materials, describing the behaviour of ductile material subject to extreme mechanical loading and its eventual failure. The book highlights constitutive features to describe the behaviour of frictional materials such as geological media. On the basis of this theory, including large strain and inelastic behaviours, bifurcation and instability are developed with a special focus on the modelling of the emergence of loca...

In questo libro viene presentata una formulazione algebrica della geometria delle masse che, prescindendo da ogni nozione di geometria proiettiva, consente una rapida comprensione della materia fondata su nozioni di matematica elementare. Per completezza di trattazione, è stata anche introdotta una formulazione tensoriale che consente la piena comprensione del carattere assoluto (ovvero indipendente dal sistema di riferimento) delle proprietà inerziali. Per agevolare lo studio vengono prop...

The book offers a unified view on classical results and recent advances in the dynamics of nonconservative systems. The theoretical fundamentals are presented systematically and include: Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalism, non-holonomic constraints, Lyapunov stability theory, Krein theory of spectra of Hamiltonian systems and modes of negative and positive energy, anomalous Doppler effect, reversible systems, sensitivity analysis of non-self-adjoint operators, dissipation-induced instabi...