Jamshid Ghaboussi is Professor Emeritus at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has over 45 years of experience in teaching and research in Computational Mechanics, Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing in Engineering Applications.

David Pecknold is a Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has more than 40 years teaching, consulting and university and industrial research experience in structural mechanics, dynamics and development of mathematical models and computer simulation techniques.

Dr. Xiping Wu is a Principal Engineer in Civil and Marine Engineering with Shell International Exploration & Production Inc.

Chapter 1 Introduction. Chapter 2 Kinematics of nonlinear deformation. Chapter 3 Stresses in deformable bodies. Chapter 4 Work and virtual work. Chapter 5 Elastic material properties. Chapter 6 Stress Invariants and material tests. Chapter 7 Elasto-plastic Material Models. Chapter 8 Nonlinear solid finite elements. Chapter 9 Kinematics of large rotations. Chapter 10 Structural elements. Chapter 11 Solution Methods. Chapter 12 Soft computing in computational mechanics.