Strength of Materials

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Summary: Good text.
Review: A well-written and entertaining text. Not as good as Den Hartog's text on advanced strength of materials, but good anyway.

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Summary: Clearly written book that is still good.
Review: Both books on mechanics of materials by Den Hartog are remarkable. All the questions have answers, the writing is clear and to the point. In this book, he gives the method of Myosotis to calculate the deflections of beams. Although such material is outdated, it does illustrate an elegant way of solving beam deflection problems. Today, many problems are being solved by brute-force computer methods. (Just make an FE mesh!!) Read this book even though it will not teach you anything new, if only like a novel.