Mechanics of Solids and Structures

by Roger T. Fenner, J.N. Reddy

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040057551
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	06/12/2012
Series:	Applied and Computational Mechanics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	705
File size:	29 MB
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About the Author

Roger T. Fenner, now retired, was Professor of Engineering Computation in the Mechanical Engineering Department of Imperial College London, where his teaching included Mechanics of Solids. Much of his research was focused on computational stress analysis, especially using boundary element and finite element methods.

J. N. Reddy, the O’Donnell Foundation Chair IV Professor in J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, is a highly-cited researcher, author of 25 textbooks and over 800 journal papers, recipient of many honors and awards, and a leader in the applied mechanics field for more than 50 years. He is well-known worldwide for his significant contributions to the field of applied and computational mechanics through the authorship of widely used textbooks on mechanics of materials, continuum mechanics, linear and nonlinear finite element analyses, variational methods, numerical methods, and composite materials and structures.

Arun Srinivasa is the holder of the J. N. Reddy Endowed Chair in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University and Associate Dean for Student Success. He teaches courses in mechanics both at graduate and undergraduate levels. He was awarded the Ben Sparks Medal from the ASME and the Archi Higdon Medal from the ASEE in recognition of his teaching.

Table of Contents

Introduction. Statically Determinate Systems. Relationships between Stress and Strain. Statically Indeterminate Systems. Bending of Beams: Moments, Forces, and Stresses. Bending of Beams: Deflections. Torsion. Instability and the Buckling of Struts and Columns. Transformations of Stress and Strain. Equilibrium and Compatibility Equations: Beams and Thick-Walled Cylinders. Energy Methods of Structural Mechanics. Appendices. Index.

Editorial Reviews

"Each topic is introduced in a careful and systematic manner, developing complexity gently, so that it nurtures and develops a joy for structural systems and the contemporary tools used to solve structural engineering challenges."
—Professor Feargal Brennan, Cranfield University

"Each topic is introduced in a careful and systematic manner, developing complexity gently, so that it nurtures and develops a joy for structural systems and the contemporary tools used to solve structural engineering challenges." —Professor Feargal Brennan, Cranfield University

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