Formulas for Stress, Strain, and Structural Matrices

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Summary: Formulas for Stress, Strain, and Structural Matrices
Review: It's very good guide for my job

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Summary: Roark's book raised to the power 3!
Review: This is a first-class reference book, very well organized. As a practising structural engineer, I'm commonly confronted with strength of materials formulas for different kind of structural members and I do extensive FE modeling. It is interesting to have analytical formulas to check these calculations on some occasions.

Roark's formulas for stress and strain hadn't satisfied me: information is not oriented for structural engineers, introductory texts are not enough theoretical and you have US units throughout.

In Pilkey's book, you have the perfect structural engineer's reference: many chapters, with at first a list of notation, explanation of conventions, and then a short introductory course on the subject together with solved examples. After that, there it is: magnificent well-organized "tables", with all kind of data of prime interest to a structural engineer. As an example, I'll mention that you can find plastic section modulus for about 11 section types.

Units are mixed for examples, but for data you have always both US and SI units furnished.

For all entries, Pilkey's book is far more complete than the Roark's one. You'll be surprised by the vastness and depth of formulas furnished. Furthermore, you have structural matrices in each case if you want to do numerical programming.

The list of references is up to date and very extensive. It is a pricy book, but you'll not regret it!

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Summary: Great book!
Review: This is a great book. It has helped me write more lab reports than I even want to count ...