Solid Mechanics in Engineering

Preface.

PART A: BASIC CONCEPTS.

1 Introductory Concepts of Solid Mechanics.

2 Internal Forces and Stress.

3 Deformation and Strain.

4 Behaviour of Materials: Constitutive Equations.

5 Summary of Basic Results and Further Idealisations: Solutions using the "Mechanics-of-Materials" Approach.

PART B: APPLICATIONS TO SIMPLE ELEMENTS.

6 Axial Loadings.

7 Torsion of Circular Cylindrical Rods: Coulomb Torsion.

8 Symmetric Bending of Beams -
Basic Relations and Stresses.

9 Symmetric Bending of Beams: Deflections, Fundamental Solutions and Superposition.

10 Thin-Wall Pressure Vessels: Thin Shells Under Pressure.

11 Stability and Instability of Rods under Axial Compression: Beam-Columns and Tie-Rods.

12 Torsion of Elastic Members of Arbitrary Cross-Section: de Saint Venant Torsion.

13 General Bending Theory of Beams.

PART C: ENERGY METHODS AND VIRTUAL WORK.

14 Basic Energy Theorems, Principles of Virtual Work and their Application to Structural Mechanics.

15 Stability of Mechanical Systems by Energy Considerations: Approximate Methods.

Appendix A: Properties of Areas.

Appendix B: Some Mathematical Relations.

Appendix C: The Membrane Equation.

Appendix D: Material Properties.

Appendix E: Table of Structural Properties.

Appendix F: Reactions, Deflections and Slopes of Selected Beams.

Answers to Selected Problems.

Index.