Isbn: 9798192570760 - mechanics of materials for newbies: a practical introduction to stress, strain, equilibrium, material behavior, and engineering structures (5 risultati)

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Every stress formula eventually meets a problem it wasn't memorized for: a stepped shaft instead of a uniform rod, a beam with an overhang instead of a textbook span, a support that isn't quite rigid. When a formula was learned as a rule rather than understood as a physical statement about how a loaded material actually behaves, that moment of divergence is where confidence collapses, and the reader is left with a result they cannot check and cannot extend. This book was built to close that gap. Across sixteen cumulative chapters, every topic starts with the physical picture, what stress and strain represent inside a loaded rod, shaft, or beam, and why a member deforms the way it does, before the governing formula is derived from that picture. The result is a single connected toolkit built from first principles rather than a list of formulas to memorize and hope survives contact with an unfamiliar problem. Working through this book, readers will derive and apply the core formulas for stress, strain, and deformation directly from equilibrium and compatibility, so results extend into problems that don't match a memorized template; follow fully worked examples carried through with complete SI and US customary unit tracking and a plausibility check against realistic magnitudes; test their own understanding against end-of-chapter practice problems carried through to fully verified solutions, not just final answers; recognize and avoid the specific, recurring errors identified in a "Common Points of Confusion" section in every chapter; see each chapter's method connected to a real engineering scenario through a dedicated "Applied Context" section; use three appendices, covering common engineering material properties, standard beam deflection formulas, and SI/US unit conversions, plus a full glossary, as a reference well beyond a first reading; and work through integrated, multi-topic design case studies that combine tools from across the book, the way a real component actually demands. Coverage moves systematically through the foundations of stress and strain and material behavior; axial loading in determinate and statically indeterminate members, including thermal stress; torsion of circular shafts; shear-force and bending-moment diagrams, bending stress, and transverse shear stress in beams; combined loading and stress transformation, including Mohr's circle; beam deflection by integration, superposition, and the moment-area method; statically indeterminate beams; columns and buckling; energy methods, including Castigliano's theorem; and failure theories, fatigue, and thin-walled pressure vessel design. This book is written for engineering and engineering-technology students meeting mechanics of materials for the first time, for readers refreshing knowledge from an earlier course, and for self-learners building this subject on their own, provided they already bring a working knowledge of statics and single-variable calculus. Open this book and begin building mechanics of materials the way it is actually used: derived from physical understanding, verified through worked practice, and ready to extend into the next problem it wasn't specifically written for. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…