Department of Mechanics: Literature

Here we would like to share some ideas, hints and recommendations regarding useful scientific and educational books and papers.

Books authored by members of the department

• Z. Bittnar, J. Šejnoha: Numerical Methods in Structural Mechanics, ASCE Publications, 1996

This is the English translation of a book that was published in Czech in 1992 (Z. Bittnar, J. Šejnoha: Numerické metody mechaniky 1 a 2, České vysoké učení technické, Praha, 1992). The Czech version is out of stock and can be downloaded from here: File:Nmm1.pdf, File:Nmm2.pdf

• M. Jirásek, Z.P. Bažant: Inelastic Analysis of Structures, Wiley, 2002
• J. Kruis: Domain Decomposition Methods for Distributed Computing, Saxe-Coburg Publications, 2006

Textbooks

Please recommend good textbooks of structural mechanics at the undergraduate level

• matematika.cuni.cz - the site contains various mathematical materials relating courses taught at Faculty of Mathematics and Physisc at the Charles University