Solid Mechanics in Engineering

This book provides a systematic, modern introduction to solid mechanics that is carefully motivated by realistic Engineering applications. Based on 25 years of teaching experience, Raymond Parnes uses a wealth of examples and a rich set of problems to build the reader's understanding of the scientific principles, without requiring 'higher mathematics'. Highlights of the book include * The use of modern SI units throughout * A thorough presentation of the subject stressing basic unifying concepts * Comprehensive coverage, including topics such as the behaviour of materials on a phenomenological level. * Over 600 problems, many of which are designed for solving with MATLAB, MAPLE or MATHEMATICA. Solid Mechanics in Engineering is designed for 2-semester courses in Solid Mechanics or Strength of Materials taken by students in Mechanical, Civil or Aeronautical Engineering and Materials Science and may also be used for a first-year graduate program. Cover ......Page 1 Title ......Page 4 Copyright ......Page 5 Dedication ......Page 6 Contents ......Page 7 Preface ......Page 16 Part A - Basic Concepts ......Page 19 1. Introductory concepts of solid mechanics ......Page 20 2. Internal forces and stress ......Page 38 3. Deformation and strain ......Page 91 4. Behaviour of materials: constitutive equations ......Page 136 5. Summary of basic results and further idealisations: solutions using the "mechanics-of-materials" approach ......Page 162 Part B - Applications to Simple Elements ......Page 170 6. Axial loadings ......Page 171 7. Torsion of circular cylindrical rods: Coulomb torsion ......Page 206 8. Symmetric bending of beams - basic relations and stresses ......Page 241 9. Symmetric bending of beams: deflections, fundamental solutions and superposition ......Page 329 10. Thin-wall pressure vessels: thin shells under pressure ......Page 409 11. Stability and instability of rods under axial compression: beam-columns and tie-rods ......Page 421 12. Torsion of elastic members of arbitrary cross-section: de Saint Venant torsion ......Page 464 13. General bending theory of beams ......Page 513 Part C - Energy Methods and Virtual Work ......Page 552 14. Basic energy theorems, principles of virtual work and their applications to structural mechanics ......Page 553 15. Stability of mechanical systems by energy considerations: approximate methods ......Page 662 Appendix A: Properties of areas ......Page 703 Appendix B: Some mathematical relations ......Page 710 Appendix C: The membrane equation ......Page 714 Appendix D: Material properties ......Page 717 Appendix E: Table of structural properties ......Page 719 Appendix F: Reactions, deflections and slopes of selected beams ......Page 726 Answers to selected problems ......Page 730 Index ......Page 738

This book provides a systematic, modern introduction to solid mechanics that is carefully motivated by realistic Engineering applications. Based on 25 years of teaching experience, Raymond Parnes uses a wealth of examples and a rich set of problems to build the reader's understanding of the scientific principles, without requiring 'higher mathematics'.

Highlights of the book include

• The use of modern SI units throughout
• A thorough presentation of the subject stressing basic unifying concepts
• Comprehensive coverage, including topics such as the behaviour of materials on a phenomenological level
• Over 600 problems, many of which are designed for solving with MATLAB, MAPLE or MATHEMATICA.

Solid Mechanics in Engineering is designed for 2-semester courses in Solid Mechanics or Strength of Materials taken by students in Mechanical, Civil or Aeronautical Engineering and Materials Science and may also be used for a first-year graduate program.