The first part of this textbook presents the mathematical background needed to precisely
describe the basic problem of continuum thermomechanics. The book then concentrates on
developing governing equations for the problem dealing in turn with the kinematics of material
continuum description of the state of stress discussion of the fundamental conservation laws
of underlying physics formulation of initial-boundary value problems and presenting weak
(variational) formulations. In the final part the crucial issue of developing techniques for
solving specific problems of thermomechanics is addressed. To this aim the authors present a
discretized formulation of the governing equations discuss the fundamentals of the finite
element method and develop some basic algorithms for solving algebraic and ordinary
differential equations typical of problems on hand. Theoretical derivations are followed by
carefully prepared computational exercises and solutions.
