Mechanics of Materials, 2 edition

Key features:

• Offers concise coverage of all of the required material for a Mechanics of Materials course.

• Covers fundamental concepts – clearly and simply – without clouding students’ understanding with details about special cases.

• Advanced topics are found in later chapters and are not interwoven into the early chapters on the basic theory allowing the core material to be efficiently taught without skipping over topics within chapters.

• The general transformation equation for stress (including Mohr’s Circle) are deferred until Chapter 8, after students have gained experience with the basics of axial, torsional, and bending loads.

• In the derivation of formulas, the authors emphasize the physical situation before implementing mathematics to model the problem.

• Free-body diagrams are used throughout the text to identify unknown quantities and to recognize the number of independent equations.

• Virtually, every article is immediately illustrated by sample problems and homework problems that illustrate the principles and the problem-solving procedure introduced in the article.

• End-of-chapter homework exercises serve as a review of the material covered in the chapter.

• Design-oriented computer problems are included at the end of most chapters, intended to be solved using computer languages such as MathCAD and/or MATLAB.

• The text contains an equal number of problems using SI and US Customary Units.

• Basic equations are summarized inside the back cover of the textbook for easy access.