Mechanics of solids and structures (2nd Ed.)

A revision of a popular textbook, this volume emphasizes the development of analysis techniques from basic principles for a broad range of practical problems, including simple structures, pressure vessels, beams and shafts. The book integrates numerical and computer techniques with programs for carrying out analyses, facilitating design, and solving the problems found at the end of each chapter. It also presents the underlying theory and traditional manual solution methods along with these techniques. This new second edition covers relationships between stress and strain, torsion, statically determinate systems, instability of struts and columns, and compatibility equations.

Introduction. Modeling of Engineering Systems. Review of Statics. Concepts of Stress and Strain. Influence of Material Properties. Principles of Mechanics of Solids. Use of Numerical Methods and Computers. Statically Determinate Systems. Pin-Jointed Structures. Uniformly Loaded Thin Shells. Flexible Cables. Relationships between Stress and Strain. Hydrostatic Stress and Volumetric Strain. Elastic Stress-Strain Equations. Other Stress-Strain Relationships. Deformations of Statically Determinate Systems. Statically Indeterminate Systems. Pin-Jointed Structures. Other Statically Indeterminate Systems. Bending of Beams: Moments, Forces, and Stresses. Some Practical Examples of Beams. Shear Forces and Bending Moments in Beams. Stresses Due To Bending. Combined Bending and Axial Loads. Bending of Beams-Deflections. Relationship between Curvature and Bending Moment. Deflection of Statically Determinate Beams. Deflection of Statically Indeterminate Beams. Computer Method for Beam Deflections. Torsion. Torsion of Shafts. Statically Determinate Torsion Problems. Statically Indeterminate Torsion Problems. Combined Bending and Torsion. Instability and the Buckling of Struts and Columns. Stable, Neutral, and Unstable Equilibrium. Buckling of Pin-Ended Struts. Struts and Columns with Other End Conditions. Transformations of Stress and Strain. Transformation of Stress. Transformation of Strain. Computer Method for Stresses and Strains at a Point. Yield and Fracture Criteria. Equilibrium and Compatibility Equations: Beams and Thick-Walled Cylinders. Stress Equilibrium Equations. Strain Compatibility Equations. Application to Beam Bending. Application to Thick-Walled Cylinders and Disks. Energy Methods of Structural Mechanics. Concepts of Work and Energy. Strain Energy and Complementary Strain Energy. Virtual Work and Complementary Virtual Work. Variational Operator and Fundamental Lemma. The Principle of Virtual Displacements and its Special Cases. The Principle of Virtual Forces and its Special Cases. Appendix A: Properties of Materials. Appendix B: Moments of Area. Appendix D: Deflections and Slopes for Some Common Cases of the Bending of Uniform Beams. Index.