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Mechanics of Materials (5th Edition)

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Having read and used several books in this area, my favorite one is this book. While studying for my PE last year in Mechanical Engineering, I tried to use Gere and Timoshenko, but found it to be difficult to read. I was familiar with R.C. Hibbeler's Engineering Mechanics books, and liked his writing style and resulting "ease of presenting technical engineering topics in a readable format with many examples and practical problems." So I got a copy of this book and found it to be very well organized, very readable, very good figures and illustrations, and very practical and useful. So I would highly recommend this book to all, along with R.C. Hibbeler's other books.

I am an author of this book, so I cannot review it. But I want to point out that the review by "mr303" cannot have been written about this book, because the book will be used in the classroom for the first time this spring, so the reviewer cannot have taken a course using it. Furthermore, the identical review by the same reviewer appears with the listings of other books having the same title, so it's clear there's just been a mixup. Also, the listing of this book gives the wrong publisher; it is published by Prentice Hall.

Simple, concise, great examples, great illustrations, great problems. The style is: present a topic briefly, derive equation(s) quickly, show 3-4 examples of using said equation(s), give a couple dozen problems, and move right on to the next topic. Thanks Mr. Hibbeler, for making engineering students' lives just a bit easier.

Hibbeler is probably the most reliable author when it comes to Mechanics of Materials. A must have for Mechancial, Environmental, Civil and Materials Engineers. Explains everything in the easiest and most practical matter, without skipping anything of value.

This is a good book on a very difficult subject. It was the text book for one of my harder engineering classes. The book does a pretty decent job of explaining theroies, and the worked example problems are done pretty good. My only complaint is that the worked examples are quite easy compared to the homework problems. Homework problems require lots of time, thinking, and MORE time. Overall i thought the material was pretty interesting. Good Luck

I was a pre-engineering student in Seattle. This book have plenty of examples in which I can follow step by step. The homework problems are useful, practical and innovative in this book. It help us to visualize the practical problems outside the school. Thus, this is very helpful for the engineering students, especially Civil and structral, to build up the fundamental concept of materials.

Nevertheless, this class is not easy. It is hard to undersatnd the concept of Materials for the beginner. It is very helpful for students to have peer group or ask for your professor to have further explanations or examples.

This is a great textbook for engineering students as well as practicing engineers who want to keep in touch with this subject. It is unfortunate that at least one of the reviews of this text seems misplaced. The review by mr303 cannot have been written about this book, because it has not been out long enough for the reviewer to have taken a course using it. The identical review by the same reviewer also appears with the listing of the book Mechanics of Materials by R. C. Hibbeler, so perhaps this review has mistakenly become attached to the listings of several books with the same title. Also, the wrong publisher is listed for this book. It is published by Prentice Hall.

I have used previous editions of this textbook off and on for several years teaching a Mechanics of Materials course and I do not have any problems whatsoever with the book. By itself I would rate it 5. This review is meant to be VERY critical of the publisher's effort with the online homework in MasteringEngineering. I am not new to MasteringEngineering, having used it in both Statics and Dynamics by the same author. In those courses all textbook homework problems are available for selection by the instructor to prepare homework sets. In this textbook, however, not even half of the textbook problems are available. In the first chapter which contains 100 end of section problems, there are only 38 available in MasteringEngineering. There are none of the fundamental homework problems available. I checked a later chapter also. Chapter 4 has less than half of the problems available. Also the problems available are not always representative of chapter content so when preparing a homework set there are problems you wish you could select that are not available.

Shame on Pearson for putting this out when it is not ready.

this is a great book. Key equations are clearly marked, book has worked out solutions for examples that are very helpful

This is a great reference tool for the office for anyone over 50! The examples are relavent and the material is pretty tight. Recommended.