A . Anandarajah is a professor at The Johns Hopkins University, where he is a member of the Civil Engineering Department. Professor Anandarajah has almost 30 years of experience as an educator and researcher. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in numerical modeling, solid mechanics and geomechanics.
From the reviews: The text is mostly self-contained and provides a well-detailed presentation of all topics needed, including a fair amount of discussed examples creating excellent opportunities for interested research students to expand and test their own results. The presentation of every topic is update and deep enough to meet anyone working on the title problems. ... the students of different techniques (e.g., boundary element practitioners) should also profit from this remarkable textbook. Especially, research engineering students interested in stress analysis should profit immensely from this noteworthy contribution. (J. C. F. Telles, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1211, 2011)