Resources

Continuum Mechanics

• Abeyaratne, R. Lecture Notes on the Mechanics of Elastic Solids.
• Bower, A.F. Applied Mechanics of Solids.
• Anand, L. and Govindjee, S. Continuum Mechanics of Solids, Oxford, 2020.
• Gurtin, M.E., Fried, E. and Anand, L. The Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Continua, Cambridge, 2010.

Plasticity & Inelasticity

• Lubliner, J. Plasticity Theory.
• Simo, J.C. and Hughes, T.J. Computational Inelasticity.
• Dunne, F. and Petrinic, N. Introduction to Computational Plasticity.
• de Souza Neto, E.A., Perić, D. and Owen, D.R. Computational Methods for Plasticity.

Finite Elements

• Reddy, J.N. An Introduction to the Finite Element Method.
• Reddy, J.N. An Introduction to Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis.
• The Periodic Table of the Finite Elements.
• Open-source frameworks: deal.II, FEniCS, MOOSE.

Indentation & Contact Mechanics

• Johnson, K.L. Contact Mechanics.
• Fischer-Cripps, A.C. Introduction to Contact Mechanics.
• Tabor, D. The Hardness of Metals.
• Oliver, W.C. and Pharr, G.M. Foundational papers on instrumented indentation.

Machine Learning

• Zhang, A., Lipton, Z.C., Li, M. and Smola, A.J. Dive into Deep Learning.
• Goodfellow, I., Bengio, Y. and Courville, A. Deep Learning.

Computing & Research Tools

• Version control: Git and GitHub.
• Scientific computing: Python, MATLAB, C++, Fortran.
• Machine learning: PyTorch, JAX, scikit-learn.
• Mechanics software: Abaqus, ANSYS, COMSOL.
• Reference management: Zotero or Mendeley.
• Technical writing: LaTeX.