Advanced Mechanics of Materials [Hardcover]

Arthur P. Boresi (Author), Richard J. Schmidt (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 22, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0471438812 | ISBN-13: 978-0471438816 | Edition: 6

Building on the success of five previous editions, this new sixth edition continues to present a unified approach to the study of the behavior of structural members and the development of design and failure criteria. The text treats each type of structural member in sufficient detail so that the resulting solutions are directly applicable to real-world problems. New examples for various types of member and a large number of new problems are included. To facilitate the transition from elementary mechanics of materials to advanced topics, a review of the elements of mechanics of materials is presented along with appropriate examples and problems.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 681 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 6 edition (October 22, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471438812
• ISBN-13: 978-0471438816
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 1.2 x 9.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #238,740 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very useful, but not for the faint-hearted!, September 27, 2005

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Tim O'Shenko (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Advanced Mechanics of Materials (Hardcover)

I've used this book both as a graduate student and a professor in civil/mechanical engineering. This book fills an important gap in advanced mechanics of materials/applied elasticity books (e.g. Ugural & Fenster, Cook & Young, Barber). Why? It contains a complete chapter on static failure theories including both pressure-independent (von Mises, Tresca) and pressure-dependent (Coulomb and Drucker-Prager) approaches. It also includes a full chapter on fracture mechanics, traditional fatigue, stress concentration factors, and creep. This book is a great launching point for courses involving plates & shells, elastic stability, and plasticity. However, this is not an elasticity text. Neither is this book a text on finite element analysis, although the publisher has an online chapter on FEA available. The reading level is challenging. Period. For an easier read, try Barber's "Intermediate Mechanics of Materials" or Cook and Young's "Advanced Mechanics of Materials." The bottom line is that this classic book, based on the 1931 text of Fred Seely of the Univ. of Illinois, is very useful, but it's not for the faint-hearted.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Book for Beginner and Practicioners, December 23, 2004

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Marco G F Capozzi (Starkville, MS. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Advanced Mechanics of Materials (Hardcover)

I don't subscribe to the point of view of those people who don't like this book. The book is clear, coincise, well written. I used in one of my Master's classes, and I loved it. It covers: stress theory, elasticity, fatigue analysis, basics of FE method, basic crack theory. Again, as I use to write in all my reviews: for each one of the chapters, one may find dozens of books. For the beginner and the practicioner this book is OK.

It has been say: "Computers make a good engineer a better one, a bad engineer a dangerous man". IF you don't know the THEORY, you will FAIL in the practice.

Do you really think one needs to perform a FEM analysis in order to know that as the radius of a round approaches zero, the stress at a point reaches the infinity?!?

Here you will find the theory needed to SAFELY perform structural analysis (with or without computers).

I think this book is a good one, and should stand in every engineer's bookshelf

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good book, but bad site, December 1, 2009

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This review is from: Advanced Mechanics of Materials (Hardcover)

I find this book very clear and yet it has several topics. But the site where the solutions are supposed to be are rather confusing, and, for some unknown reason, only teachers have access to the answer key. I think a graduation student should be given the right to check his answer, since he is not a kid who will cheat on his homework or anything.