Customer Reviews

Advanced Mechanics of Materials

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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.

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

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.

I realy like this book as a reference guide. I design powertrain parts for medium and light duty trucks and passcars. I typically use the formulas in this book to evaluate new designs and patent ideas before a great deal time and money is put into the program just to find out that it wont work. It is a great resorce for the first look at structural integerity and fatiuge life before investing in FEA.

I used Cook & Young (an adequate textbook) for my MS class on advanced strength (in '85) but soon after I started working I bought a copy of this one because it is better as a reference for professional stress analysts. This book explains what's going on behind the screen of all those FEA programs some reviewers seem to love so much. Well guys, how do you know what the answer means if you haven't a clue how the answer was developed, or what the question meant. Boresi/Sidebottom offers an excellent outline of solid mechanics from the strength of materials perspetive, as opposed to continuum mechanics or elastcity. The sections of theories of failure are very good.

This book is a text book for courses in advanced mechanics at many universities. It retains the strength of materials approach, rather than that of the theory of elasticity, so it is easy to follow for anyone with a basic background in mechanics. This book is also a good reference with most of the important topics being covered. A good purchase for anyone interested in mechanics of materials.

It looked crisp clean, arrived early.Very good quality!!!!!!! I am very happy with the manual because it has even problems solved but Doesn't have all the odd problems as I expected.

This book is well written and even manages to maintain an interesting easily read tone.

The only reason I don't give it a 5 is because it is not a stand alone text. Aside from stress/strain theories and general planar analysis (Mohr's circle relations, Hooke's Laws), there is not much review of basic mechanics of materials in this book so it is not going to work for students new to mechanics or who are looking to be able to review basic mechanics before you delve into the meat of advanced mechanics. In fact, I recommend having a basic mechanics book available even for the more advanced students because it is often a necessary reference for many of the problems.

Aside from the above drawback, the new material presented in this book is layed out very well and with just enough detail to keep an engineer happy. What I mean by this is that only enough mathematics is used as is necessary, and the author avoids extensive exhausting proofs wherever he can.

Some of the advanced topics covered are as follows:

Inelastic Material Behavior

Applications of Energy Methods

Advanced Bending & Torsion

Curved Beam Analysis

Elastic and Inelastic Foundations

Stress Concentrations

Fracture Mechanics

Fatigue

Contact Stresses

Creep

One of the best reference books to have on the shelf, although some others may be better as course textbooks.

I was searching for a text book dealing with the concepts of Advanced Mechanics of Materials and found the right choice.One can undoubtedtly go ahead in buying this book as it vividly explains the concepts...