This book provides a complete introduction to the discipline of strength of
materials. Aimed at Undergraduate and Graduate courses, the book provides a
single text that students can use throughout their studies.
Key features include:
- an easy-to-understand text structured into three parts with each part reflecting a typical year's syllabus of a mechanical, civil, structural or offshore engineering degree
- extensive coverage of every major topic of strength of materials with compre-hensive chapters on the theory of elasticity, the finite element method and the fracture and fatigue of engineering materials
- more than 400 figures
- more than 70 chapter examples
- more than 160 chapter exercises with solutions available in Adobe AcrobatTM format