9789400702943-9400702949-Intermediate Mechanics of Materials (Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, 175)

Intermediate Mechanics of Materials (Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, 175)

ISBN-13: 9789400702943
ISBN-10: 9400702949
Edition: 2nd ed. 2011
Author: J. R. Barber
Publication date: 2010
Publisher: Springer
Format: Hardcover 633 pages
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ISBN-13: 9789400702943
ISBN-10: 9400702949
Edition: 2nd ed. 2011
Author: J. R. Barber
Publication date: 2010
Publisher: Springer
Format: Hardcover 633 pages

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Intermediate Mechanics of Materials (Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, 175) (ISBN-13: 9789400702943 and ISBN-10: 9400702949), written by authors J. R. Barber, was published by Springer in 2010. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other Aerospace (Civil & Environmental, Engineering, Mechanical, Aeronautics & Astronautics, Astronomy & Space Science, Mechanics, Physics) books. You can easily purchase or rent Intermediate Mechanics of Materials (Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, 175) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Aerospace books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $18.62.

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This book covers the essential topics for a second-level course in strength of materials or mechanics of materials, with an emphasis on techniques that are useful for mechanical design. Design typically involves an initial conceptual stage during which many options are considered. At this stage, quick approximate analytical methods are crucial in determining which of the initial proposals are feasible. The ideal would be to get within 30% with a few lines of calculation. The designer also needs to develop experience as to the kinds of features in the geometry or the loading that are most likely to lead to critical conditions.

With this in mind, the author tries wherever possible to give a physical and even an intuitive interpretation to the problems under investigation. For example, students are encouraged to estimate the location of weak and strong bending axes and the resulting neutral axis of bending before performing calculations, and the author discusses ways of getting good accuracy with a simple one degree of freedom Rayleigh-Ritz approximation. Students are also encouraged to develop a feeling for structural deformation by performing simple experiments in their outside environment, such as estimating the radius to which an initially straight bar can be bent without producing permanent deformation, or convincing themselves of the dramatic difference between torsional and bending stiffness for a thin-walled open beam section by trying to bend and then twist a structural steel beam by hand-applied loads at one end.

In choosing dimensions for mechanical components, designers will expect to be guided by criteria of minimum weight, which with elementary calculations, generally leads to a thin-walled structure as an optimal solution. This consideration motivates the emphasis on thin-walled structures, but also demands that students be introduced to the limits imposed by structural instability. Emphasis is also placed on the effect of manufacturing errors on such highly-designed structures - for example, the effect of load misalignment on a beam with a large ratio between principal stiffness and the large magnification of initial alignment or loading errors in a strut below, but not too far below the buckling load.

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