'… the software can be useful to readers in testing different options of the codes, building their own simple examples, and acquiring some additional experience and knowledge about continuum mechanics and numerical methods for their simulations.' Josip Tambaca, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Review
1. Introduction; 2. Dynamic analysis of 3-D trusses; 3. Dynamic equilibrium of deformable solids; 4. Discretization and solution; 5. Conservation laws in solid dynamics; 6. Thermodynamics; 7. Space and time discretization of conservation laws in solid dynamics; 8. Computer implementation for displacement-based dynamics; 9. Computational implementation for conservation-law-based explicit fast dynamics; Appendix. Shocks; Bibliography; Index.