刚看到肖建华老师的一篇介绍理性力学的文章,写到很好,尽管我看得似懂非懂的。一个结构工程的学生,至少工程力学的各个分枝都学过一点了,可是提到理性力学,却仍是只知其名,不知其真正所以然,不免脸中飞红了。看完正好内急,想起肖老师文中提到Truesdell,书架上正好有Truesdell的连续介质力学讲义——The Elements of Continuum Mechanics,如厕的好材料,抓紧时间补习一下。
这不,Truesdell在1966年是这样评价我们的工程力学教育的:
Indeed, in many universities today the student is considered a master of "classical mechanics" if he has a nodding acquaintance with the formalism of analytical dynamics. Just as bad, many engineering schools are now disguising by the name "continuum mechanics" a loos gruel of bits of classical elasticity floating at random in classical fluids waste.