Solid Mechanics

This book provides a background in the mechanics of solids for students of mechanical engineering.

William F. Hosford (Author)

9780521192293, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 22 March 2010

272 pages, 225 b/w illus. 8 tables 180 exercises
26.1 x 18.3 x 2.4 cm, 0.81 kg

This book provides a background in the mechanics of solids for students of mechanical engineering, while limiting the information on why materials behave as they do. It is assumed that the students have already had courses covering materials science and basic statics. Much of the material is drawn from another book by the author, Mechanical Behavior of Materials. To make the text suitable for mechanical engineers, the chapters on slip, dislocations, twinning, residual stresses, and hardening mechanisms have been eliminated and the treatment of ductility, viscoelasticity, creep, ceramics, and polymers has been simplified.

1. Stress, strain and boundary conditions
2. Elasticity
3. Mechanical testing
4. Strain hardening
5. Plasticity theory
6. Temperature and strain-rate
7. Viscoelasticity
8. Creep and stress rupture
9. Ductility and fracture
10. Fracture mechanics
11. Fatigue
12. Polymers and ceramics
13. Composites
14. Forming
15. Anisotropy.

Subject Areas: Mechanics of fluids [TGMF], Mechanics of solids [TGMD], Materials science [TGM], Mechanical engineering [TGB], Mechanical engineering & materials [TG]