This book offers a unified presentation of the concepts and general principles common to all branches of solid and fluid mechanics, designed to appeal to the intuition and understanding of advanced undergraduate or first-year postgraduate students in engineering or engineering science.

This book presents an introduction into the entire science of Continuum Mechanics in three parts. Part I: Continuum Mechanics introduces into the Foundations using tensors in Cartesian coordinate systems, classical theory of elasticity, and fluid mechanics. Part II: Mechanics of Materials has chapters on viscoelasticity, plasticity, principles of constitutive modelling, and thermodynamics. Part III presents Tensor Analysis and fundamental equations of Continuum Mechanics in curvilinear coordinates.