《工程力学专业英语》(作者严波、皮文丽)是在编者编写的《工程力学专业英语阅读教材》(讲义)的基础上改编而成。

本书共分14个单元，每一单元包括一篇课文和两篇阅读材料，选材广泛，针对性强，内容新。

本书无论是在内容选材还是在内容编写上均具有特色，是一本适用于工程力学专业和力学类专业本科生的实用教材，也可供土木、机械、材料等相关工科专业的本科生、研究生及相关工程技术人员学习参考。

《工程力学专业英语》(作者严波、皮文丽)选编了工程力学专业涉及的科技英文文章，包括理论力学、材料力学、弹性力学、结构力学、振动力学、塑性力学、实验力学、计算力学、疲劳与断裂、复合材料力学和流体力学等内容，并注意纳入相应课程的新概念，覆盖面广。《工程力学专业英语》还分单元介绍了英文科技报告、学位论文、期刊论文写作技巧和英汉科技文章的翻译技巧，旨在培养学生科技论文写作和翻译的基本技能。各单元课文正文适用于教师精讲，第一篇阅读材料适用于本科生自学，或在教师指导下学习，第二篇阅读材料内容相对较深，主要适用于研究生学习参考。此外，每篇文章后面均列出了生词和短语，附录中列出了常用专业词汇和短语，便于读者查阅。

本书无论是在内容选材还是在内容编写上均具有特色，是一本适用于工程力学专业和力学类专业本科生的实用教材，也可供土木、机械、材料等相关工科专业的本科生、研究生及相关工程技术人员学习参考。

前言

Unit OneSome Basic Concepts of Mechanics

Writing Skill of Experimental Research Report: INTRODUCTION (1)

Reading Material (1): Kinetic Energy and Work

Reading Material (2): The Lagrangian Method

Unit TwoThe Flexure Formula of Beams

Writing Skill of Experimental Research Report: INTRODUCTION (2)

Reading Material (1): Metals in Mechanical and Structural Design

Reading Material (2): Stability of Column

Unit ThreeWhat is Continuum Mechanics

Writing Skill of Experimental Research Report: INTRODUCTION (3)

Reading Material (1): Stress

Reading Material (2): Solid Mechanics

Unit FourHooke’s Law

Writing Skill of Experimental Research Report: METHOD and MATERIALS

Reading Material (1): Basic Equations of Elastic Homogeneous and Isotropic

Bodies

Reading Material (2): Stress Waves in Solids

Unit FiveStatically Indeterminate Structure

Writing Skill of Experimental Research Report: RESULTS and DISCUSSION

Reading Material (1): Basic Structural Elements

Reading Material (2): General Theory of Plane Trusses

Unit SixFree Vibrations: One Degree of Freedom

Writing Skill of Experimental Research Report: ABSTRACT

Reading Material (1): Forced Harmonic Vibration

Reading Material (2): Response to Arbitrary, Step, and Pulse Excitations

Unit SevenDescription of Elastoplastic Material Response under Uniaxial Case

科技英语翻译技巧： 科技文章的特点

Reading Material (1): Yield Criteria of Metals

Reading Material (2): Some Plasticity and Viscoplasticity Constitutive

Theories

Unit EightExperimental Stress Analysis

科技英语翻译技巧： 词义引申和词量增减

Reading Material (1): Strain Gage System

Reading Material (2): Perspectives in Experimental Solid Mechanics

Unit NineDirect Formulation of Finite Element Characteristics

科技英语翻译技巧： 词性的转换和句子成分转换

Reading Material (1): Variational Principle

Reading Material (2): Generalization of the Finite Element Concepts

Unit TenFatigue of Materials

科技英语翻译技巧： 常见多功能词的译法

Reading Material (1): Linear Fracture Mechanics

Reading Material (2): Fracture Mechanics

Unit ElevenBasic Terminology of Laminated FiberReinforced Composite Materials

科技英语翻译技巧： 数词的译法和被动语态的译法

Reading Material (1): Macromechanical Behavior of a Lamina

Reading Material (2): Shape Memory Alloy and Smart Hybrid Composites

Advanced Materials for the 21st Century

Unit TwelveFluid Mechanics

科技英语翻译技巧： 定语从句及同位语从句的译法

Reading Material (1): Constitutive Equations of Fluids

Reading Material (2): Finite Difference Method

Unit ThirteenRock Mechanics

科技英语翻译技巧： 状语从句的译法

Reading Material (1): Special StressStrain States of Rock

Reading Material (2): Soil Mechanics

Unit FourteenStructural Optimization

科技英语翻译技巧： 长句的译法

Reading Material (1): Research Directions in Computational Mechanics

Reading Material (2): New Directions in Mechanics

附录： 常用专业词汇和用语汇总表

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