Product Description

This volume emphasizes the fundamental concepts and applications of strength of materials while developing students' analytical and problem solving skills. This edition has been revised to include more teaching detail in the text, explanations and worked examples, a more natural and logical topic sequence, improved illustrations, and enhanced problem sets.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #779979 in Books
• Published on: 1996-11-22
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 912 pages

Customer Reviews

Very impressive piece of work
I purchased this book two years ago and as a practicing engineer for almost 10 years was very impressed with the detail of the text. I worked my way through a lot of the exercises and, although I found a few discrepancies in the answers, was mostly impressed with the level and quantity of problems. As per one of the previous recommendations, I think this book would be more suited to practising engineers as opposed to students.
Overall, I was impressed with the book and would recommend it.

Good, solid, mechanics book
I bought this book in my first year Mech. Eng. degree. I was still using it in my final year. If I had not lent it to someone I was tutoring (who kept it) I would still be using it, 11 years later, designing medical devices for a living. Good book.

This book is an essential Degree course-book.
This book is the bees-knees. It is pure algebra throughout and the way the thoery is presented is superb. There is very little modern-math, everything is shown using trig or calculus. Essential book for Moment-Area and deflection theory. If you need a structures text-book, get this one. Timoshenko's 'Plates and Shells' was scary: this book is not. It's timeless and will be read for years and years.