1. Introduction. 2. Surface temperatures in moving bodies. 3. Stress and deformation fields in half-space and layered elastic media. 4. Thermoelasticity. 5. Viscoelasticity. 6. Perfect plasticity 7: Rough Surfaces. 8: Applications. Appendix

Provides a rigorous derivation of surface properties such as temperature and deformation using continuum mechanics; Discussion is animated by the authors' decades of experience in experimental mechanics; Includes many techniologically motivated problems, solutions and computer solutions