Schaum's Outline of Strength of Materials 4th Edition [Paperback]

William A. Nash (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0070466173 | ISBN-13: 978-0070466173 | Publication Date: July 1, 1998 | Edition: 4

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Master strength of materials with Schaum's--the high-performance study guide. It will help you cut study time, home problem-solving skills, and achieve your personal best on exams!

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Inside you will find:

• 618 detailed problems, including step-by-step solutions
• Hundreds of additional practice problems, with answers supplied
• Clear explanations of the strengths of systems subject to dynamic loadings
• Complete programs in FORTRAN for difficult geometries of structural members, with examples, plus simpler programs

If you want top grades and a thorough understanding of strength of materials, this powerful study tool is the best tutor you can have!

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Product Details

• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 4 edition (July 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070466173
• ISBN-13: 978-0070466173
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book for first course., September 25, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Schaum's Outline of Strength of Materials 4th Edition (Paperback)

This book is very good. First year students will find it very user friendly. Even a graduate engineer may need it to brush up previouly learned skills. All topics - e.g. material properties, stress, beam deflection, bending moments, columns, etc. are covered in very lucid manner. A must book for EVERY engineer.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Well written book, January 28, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Schaum's Outline of Strength of Materials 4th Edition (Paperback)

I have already finished courses in strength of materials etc., and am using this book as a reference, instead of those voluminous handbooks. The book is very well written and William Nash has an excellent, straight forward way of putting forth the key points. The book has all the information you might need for a first course in strength of materials. I also use this book in conjunction with a finite element text to give me the theoretical values for comparison. In summary, if you need a solid backup for your textbook and a useful reference, you won't go wrong with this one.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Book - Better than the Combined Strengths/Statics by Nash, September 27, 2008

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Bill Moorhead (Waukesha, WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Schaum's Outline of Strength of Materials 4th Edition (Paperback)

I obtained this text in an older edition, around 1994. Although I had a college course in strengths, I really learned what I know through using this book and working all the problems. Later I found an even older edition of the Nash book at a used bookstore. I believe the copyright for this was around 1960 +/- 5 years. So it is probably one of the oldest Schaum titles, and it is the one I found most useful in my career in structural engineering and for passing the FE and PE exams. I have not looked at any recent editions, however provided that the editors retained the Nash chapters that use classical methods for calculating axials, shears, moments, deflections and stresses, you WILL learn by going through this carefully and working the problems in the back of each chapter. At some point this book was not available, and only the combined Strengths/Statics book by Nash was offered. I have that also (an early edition) and believe that it is not quite as good as the one devoted solely to strengths (this book.)