Germain’s 1973 Article on the Method of Virtual Power in Continuum Mechanics
摘要
This chapter contains a side-by-side translation into English of Paul Germain’s article “La méthode des puissances virtuelles en mécanique des milieux continus, Première partie”. The original article was published in French in the Journal de Mécanique in 1973. Some supplementary terminological and conceptual issues are briefly discussed.