Javier Bonet is a Professor of Engineering and Head of the College of Engineering at Swansea University, Director of the Welsh 'Sêr Cymru' National Research Network in Advanced Engineering and Materials, and a Visiting Professor at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya in Spain. He has extensive experience of teaching topics in structural mechanics, including large strain nonlinear solid mechanics, to undergraduate and graduate engineering students. He has been active in research in the area of computational mechanics for over 25 years, with contributions in modeling superplastic forming, large strain dynamic analysis, membrane modeling, and finite element technology, including error estimation and meshless methods (smooth particle hydrodynamics). Since the book was completed, he has been appointed as Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research and Enterprise, at the University of Greenwich.