Mechanics of Materials

Abstract

This textbook is intended for use in a first course in mechanics of materials. Programs of instruction relating to the mechanical sciences, such as mechanical, civil, and aerospace engineering, often require that students take this course in the second or third year of studies. Because of the fundamental nature of the subject matter, mechanics of materials is often a required course, or an acceptable technical elective in many other curricula. Students must have completed courses in statics of rigid bodies and mathematics through integral calculus as prerequisites to the study of mechanics of materials. This edition maintains the organization of the previous edition. The first eight chapters are dedicated exclusively to elastic analysis, including stress, strain, torsion, bending and combined loading. An instructor can easily teach these topics within the time constraints of a two-or three-credit course. The remaining five chapters of the text cover materials that can be omitted from an introductory course. Because these more advanced topics are not interwoven in the early chapters on the basic theory, the core material can e‰ciently be taught without skipping over topics within chapters. Once the instructor has covered the material on elastic analysis, he or she can freely choose topics from the more advanced later chapters, as time permits. Organizing the material in this manner has created a significant savings in the number of pages without sacrificing topics that are usually found in an introductory text.