Reviews
From the reviews of the second edition: "Presented as a textbook for a second course in the general area of solid mechanics in the mechanical, civil, and aerospace engineering curricula. ... Some unique features are the inclusion of chapters on axisymmetric membrane and bending behavior of shells and approximate techniques in energy methods ... . Overall, an excellent presentation of selected topics in mechanics with numerous exercises (over 400) and 80-plus worked-out examples to illustrate concepts/applications. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Academic libraries, upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and practicing engineers." (R. Kolar, Choice, Vol. 48 (11), August, 2011) "This textbook covers a course in strength of materials, containing also analytical and numerical methods used in the industrial mechanical design. ... The book is completed by an appendix on finite element method, widely applied in structural mechanics. The work may be useful to civil and mechanical engineers." (Olivian Simionescu, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1218, 2011), From the reviews of the second edition:Presented as a textbook for a second course in the general area of solid mechanics in the mechanical, civil, and aerospace engineering curricula. … Some unique features are the inclusion of chapters on axisymmetric membrane and bending behavior of shells and approximate techniques in energy methods … . Overall, an excellent presentation of selected topics in mechanics with numerous exercises (over 400) and 80-plus worked-out examples to illustrate concepts/applications. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Academic libraries, upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and practicing engineers. (R. Kolar, Choice, Vol. 48 (11), August, 2011), From the reviews of the second edition: "Presented as a textbook for a second course in the general area of solid mechanics in the mechanical, civil, and aerospace engineering curricula. ... Some unique features are the inclusion of chapters on axisymmetric membrane and bending behavior of shells and approximate techniques in energy methods ... . Overall, an excellent presentation of selected topics in mechanics with numerous exercises (over 400) and 80-plus worked-out examples to illustrate concepts/applications. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Academic libraries, upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and practicing engineers." (R. Kolar, Choice, Vol. 48 (11), August, 2011) "This textbook covers a course in strength of materials, containing also analytical and numerical methods used in the industrial mechanical design. ... The book is completed by an appendix on finite element method, widely applied in structural mechanics. The work may be useful to civil and mechanical engineers." (Olivian Simionescu, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1218, 2011)
