Part I. Elastic Solid. 1. Strain. 2. Stress. 3. Stress–Strain Relations. 4. The General Problem of Elastostatics. Part II. Beams. 5. Geometry and Statics of Beams. 6. Normal Force. 7. Bending Moment. 8. Torsion of Beams. 9. Shear Force. 10. Combined Loading. 11. Buckling. 12. Experimental Measurements.
Biography
A. Amine Benzerga is the General Dynamics Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University, USA, where he joined in 2004. He holds an engineering diploma from SUPAERO (Toulouse, 1995) and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Mines de Paris in 2000. Prior to joining Texas A&M, he was a Research Engineer at the National Research Laboratory of Gaz de France (now NaTran) on leave at Brown University (Providence, USA) where he later pursued his post-doctoral studies in Solid Mechanics. His research interests include the deformation and fracture of structural and functional materials. Dr. Benzerga was the recipient of a CAREER award from the U.S. National Science Foundation in 2008 and a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award in 2022. He was the Edward Pete Aldridge Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M (2011–2014) and was elected as ASME Fellow in 2024. Until recently, he was the Director of the Center for intelligent Multifunctional Materials and Structures (CiMMS) and currently holds a joint appointment in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Texas A&M.
