Foundations of Micropolar Mechanics

• Kinematics of Micropolar Continuum. –  Stress and Couple Stress Tensors in Micropolar Continuum. – Constitutive Equations. – Strong Ellipticity and Acceleration Waves. – Elements of Tensor Analysis. – Elements of Rigid Body Dynamics. – Elements of Mechanics of Elastic Rods. - Micropolar Plates and Shells as Two-dimensional Cosserat Continuum

From the reviews: "This book is devoted to the mechanics of micropolar continua or, with other words, to the mechanics of Cosserat continua. ... The book updates already published books by using some recent results. ... The book could be useful to specialists working in the field of Cosserat continua or other generalized continua." (M. Marin, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1257, 2013)