Download or read book Introduction to the Thermodynamics of Solids written by J. L. Ericksen and published by Chapman and Hall/CRC. This book was released on 1991-06-06 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main aim of this volume is to introduce and illustrate current practice in research on nonlinear phenomena encountered in solids. Strategies for designing experiments to determine equations of state are discussed, as are examples of thermodynamic stability theory.