Advanced Mechanics of Materials (Second Edition), 1952, 1961-08

Document Type: Textbook (Technical).

Purpose: Training and Education.

Authority: Author Expertise.

Scope (Preface to Second Edition and Preface to First Edition) "Many important contributions have been made to the subject of mechanics of materials since the first edition of this book appeared twenty years ago. Likewise, more students and engineers are adequately prepared for the study of advanced topics in this field of knowl-edge, and a greater need exists in engineering analysis and design for an understanding of such topics. As a consequence, the treatment in the second edition of the book has been made more penetrating and comprehensive, and much new material has been added. In fact, the second edition is essentially a new book, although the main objectives are the same as in the first edition.

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The book was prepared primarily for advanced undergraduate and first-year graduate students in engineering, although in selecting the topics and methods of presentation the needs of design and research engineers were kept in mind."

"The increasing use of analytical methods, in contrast with empirical rules, in solving the engineering problems that are continually arising in engineering industry has, in recent years, created a need for further training in the analysis of stresses and strains in various members of engineering structures and machines. There is likewise a need for a better understanding of the significance of calculated stresses in relation to the usable resistance of a member subjected to different types of loading."

Contents (from Table of Contents): Part One. Preliminary Considerations 1. Analysis of a Subject 2. Elementary Stress Formulas for Static Lods 3. Stresses and Strains at a Point. Theories of Failure by Yielding Part Two. Special Topics on the Strength and Stiffness of Members Subjected to Static Loads 4. Shear center for a Cross Section of a Beam 5. Unsymmmetrical Bending 6. Curved Flexural Members 7. Beam on Continous Elastic Support 8. Flat Plates 9. Torsional Resistance of Bars Having Non-Circular Cross Sections 10. Thick-Walled Cylinders 11. Contance Stresses Part Three. Localized Stress - Stress Concentration 12. Values and Significance of Localized Stressses in Various Members Part Four. Energy Methods 13. Considerations of Energy Principles for Determing Relations Between Loafs and Deflections 14. Deflection of Members and Simple Structures by Castigliano's Theorem 15. Deflection of Members and Simple Structures by Unit Load or Dummy Load Method 16. Forces and Moments in Statically Indeterminate Members and Structures Part Five. Influence of Small Inelastic Strains on the Load-Carrying Capacity of Members 17. Effect of Small Inelastic Strains in Axially Loaded Members and in Straight Beams 18. Effect of Small Inelastic Strains for Combined Bending and Axial Loads 19. Introduction to Ultimate Load Analysis of Statically Indeterminate Members Part Six 20. Elastic and Inelastic Bucking of Columns 21. Bucking of Cylindrical Tubes under Uniform External Pressure Appendix I. A Brief Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Elasticity Appendix II. The Elastic-Membrance (Soap-Film) Analogy for Torsion Appendix III. Properties of an Area