Mechanics of Materials, 2/e (reprint)

This book covers all the standard topics of mechanics of materials and presents them at a level suitable for sophomore and junior engineering students. In addition much material of a more advanced and specialized nature is included. Thus this book can serve both as a text and as a permanent reference. The topics include the analysis and design of structural members subjected to axial loads torsion and bending as well as such fundamental concepts as stress strain elastic and inelastic behavior and strain energy. Other topics of general interest are the transformations of stress and strain deflections of beams behavior of columns and energy methods. More specialized topics are thermal and prestrain effects pressure vessels nonprismatic members unsymmetric bending shear center inelastic bending and discontinuity functions.