Strength of Materials: A Concise Textbook

This textbook covers solid mechanics, focusing on basic load-bearing members, with examples and solutions for graduate and postgraduate engineering students.

Format: Hardback
Length: 164 pages
Publication date: 04 October 2022
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

This comprehensive textbook is meticulously crafted with engineering students in mind. It serves as an essential guide to solid mechanics, delving into the fundamental principles and applications related to basic load-bearing members such as straight bars, thin-walled cylindrical and spherical pressure vessels, circular shafts, beams subjected to simple bending, and columns. With a clear and concise approach, the text elucidates the underlying fundamental assumptions, crucial equations, and their scope of validity, without resorting to formal derivations.

To enhance understanding, the textbook includes numerous carefully selected examples that illustrate the step-by-step analysis of forces, stresses, and displacements, as well as the principles of stability. Furthermore, it addresses combined loading, stress and strain transformations, energy methods, and failure analysis, employing widely accepted criteria.

Designed as a convenient and thorough resource, this textbook is invaluable for graduate and postgraduate engineering students. It will also serve as a valuable reference for practicing engineers and graduate students preparing for interviews or competitive examinations. By comprehensively covering the core aspects of solid mechanics, this textbook equips students with the knowledge and skills necessary to excel in their academic and professional pursuits.

Weight: 452g
Dimension: 172 x 248 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031063763
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023