"A remarkable strength of this book is how it connects theoretical concepts to the read world." Pure and Applied Geophysics
Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1. General points on materials and their rheophysical behaviour; 2. Overview of the mechanics of continuous media; 3. Hydrodynamics of simple liquids; 4. Solid elasticity; 5. Defects, plasticity and fracture solids; 6. Rheology of isotropic viscoelastic materials (1); 7. Rheology of isotropic viscoelastic materials (2); 8. The rheology of liquid crystals; References; Notations; Index.