Reviews for Soils In Construction

The average rating for Soils In Construction based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-03-24 00:00:00 Allie Miller The title of this book is a little too specific. It's not just the statistical mechanics of elasticity, but a fully comprehensive introduction to graduate-level statistical mechanics (although with a focus on elastic properties). It is, however, a statistical mechanics text intended primarily for those who think routinely about elasticity: materials scientists, mechanical engineers, and anyone who thinks most naturally about materials as continuous matter, invoking particles such as atoms and chemical bonds only when necessary. I can't speak with much authority on how this book would be viewed by such students, but the statistical mechanics treatment is solid, self-contained, and likely well presented for such an audience. However, the continuum-centric approach does make it less appropriate for chemists and those physicists who prefer to think about matter as inherently particulate, and prefer instead to treat the continuum limit as an approximation valid for large enough systems. Some of the information assumed by the text to be familiar will be new or not well known among this audience. Molecular approaches are used where needed -- as for descriptions of rubber elasticity -- and in those cases they are done well. But there are not nearly enough molecular applications and interpretations for most with an atomistic worldview. The book does have some strengths, even for chemists. The treatment of the statistical mechanics of elastic constants, for example, is treated much better here than in any chemistry-oriented statistical mechanics text that I know of. As such it's a useful supplemental text for researchers or students in chemistry or physics, if they are concerned with elastic properties.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-01-12 00:00:00 Brent Singer Easy to understand, mathematically rigorous , full of insights, it's simply fantastic... In my view, it is the best book among the many titles that is written by Walter Greiner