Strength Of Materials

Strength of Materials is a textbook for engineering students that explains how solid bodies behave under load. It opens with the basic ideas of stress and strain, then moves through the tools engineers use to analyze structures: shear force and bending moment diagrams, bending and shear stresses in beams, deflection, torsion of shafts, and the behavior of thin cylinders and columns.

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Worked examples accompany the theory throughout, with problems at the end of chapters for practice. Written for undergraduate courses in civil, mechanical and related disciplines, it is a familiar reference in Indian engineering courses and a standard text for exam preparation.

Audience
adult
Length
epic · 1000 pages

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