Advanced Mechanics of Materials

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Summary: Good Book for Beginner and Practicioners
Review: I don't subscribe to the point of view of those people who don't like this book. The book is clear, coincise, well written. I used in one of my Master's classes, and I loved it. It covers: stress theory, elasticity, fatigue analysis, basics of FE method, basic crack theory. Again, as I use to write in all my reviews: for each one of the chapters, one may find dozens of books. For the beginner and the practicioner this book is OK.

It has been say: "Computers make a good engineer a better one, a bad engineer a dangerous man". IF you don't know the THEORY, you will FAIL in the practice.

Do you really think one needs to perform a FEM analysis in order to know that as the radius of a round approaches zero, the stress at a point reaches the infinity?!?

Here you will find the theory needed to SAFELY perform structural analysis (with or without computers).

I think this book is a good one, and should stand in every engineer's bookshelf

Rating:
Summary: A keeper
Review: One of the best reference books to have on the shelf, although some others may be better as course textbooks.

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Summary: Stay Away!
Review: One of the most frustrating, useless, and difficult textbooks I have had in 20 years of school. I'm startled to see favorable reviews of this textbook as it is completely unhelpful as a reference or educational tool for anyone actually trying to learn Mechanics of Materials. The examples are difficult to follow. The text is overbearing. The figures are confusing. An awful textbook.

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Summary: What is the point?
Review: This book treats mechanics of materials from a pedogogy that is thirty years old. Withthe advent of computer methods no one uses these solutions. Also, the approch is so rudementary that it limits one from reading any current treatment of the subject. Say something about stress functions, or more on inelasticity. If you want a refernce get Roarks if you want to learn something useful get Shames and Cozzarelli's book

Rating:
Summary: What is the point?
Review: This book treats mechanics of materials from a pedogogy that is thirty years old. Withthe advent of computer methods no one uses these solutions. Also, the approch is so rudementary that it limits one from reading any current treatment of the subject. Say something about stress functions, or more on inelasticity. If you want a refernce get Roarks if you want to learn something useful get Shames and Cozzarelli's book

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Summary: Avoid if you can
Review: This is quite possibly the worst textbook ever, along with Vibrations by Balachandran. It seems these people never heard about finite element analysis. The examples are confusing and the treatment of the different subjects is usually quite poor.