> finite element analysis, and mechanics of deformable bodies This sort of irks me, too. Once you get to the continuum world everyone seems to forget about the

> finite element analysis, and mechanics of deformable bodies This sort of irks me, too. Once you get to the continuum world everyone seems to forget about the Lagrangian reformulation. These are (mostly) classical systems so the machinery of Euler-Lagrange is perfectly valid, but I've met Mech E PhDs who vaguely recall Lagrangian mechanics as a footnote. Instead of all the obtuse walls of text and hand waving you get in some of these books, it would be hella rad to get at elasticity (and plasticity? via virtual work?) variationaly, in a mainstream text.