cont_mech is a Maxima package intended to aid with operative issues in
Continuum Mechanics lecturing and research. I wrote this package when
I was lecturing the undergrad course Mecánica de los Medios Continuos
(Introduction to Continuum Mechanics) for Civil Engineering at Universidad EAFIT.
The package was mainly created for two reasons:
- Help a student with reduced mobility to solve exercises in the computer (he could use it). So, it also helped me with the evaluation: making tests that can be solved in a computer.
- Make some tedious calculations like vector identities, or apply differential operators in elasticity.