Nash William A., Potter Merle C. Strength of Materials

5th edition. — McGraw-Hill Professional, 2010. — 216 p. — (Schaum's Outline Series).A classic Schaum's Outline, thoroughly updated to match the latest course scope and sequence. The ideal review for the thousands of civil and mechanical engineering students who enroll in strength of materials courses.About the BookAn update of this successful outline in strength of materials, modified to conform to the current curriculum. Schaum’s Outline of Strength of Materials mirrors the course in scope and sequence to help enrolled students understand basic concepts and offer extra practice on topics such as determinate force systems, indeterminate force systems, torsion, cantilever beams, statically determinate beams, and statically indeterminate beams. Coverage will also include centroid of an area, parallel-axis theorem for moment of inertia of a finite area, radius of gyration, product of inertia of an element of area, principal moments of inertia, and information from statics.Key Selling FeaturesOutline format supplies a concise guide to the standard college course in Strength of Materials
618 solved problems
Clear, concise explanations of all Strength of Materials concepts
Appropriate for the following courses: Strength of Materials; Mechanics of Materials; Introductory Structural Analysis; Mechanics and Strength of Materials
Record of Success: Schaum’s Outline of Strength of Materials is a solid selling title in the series—with previous edition having sold over 22,000 copies since 1999.
Easily-understood review of strength of materials
Supports all the major textbooks for strength of materials coursesThis fifth edition of Schaum’s Strength of Materials book has been substantially modified by the second author to better fit the outline of the introductory Strength of Materials (Solid Mechanics) course, and to better fit the presentation of material in most introductory textbooks on the subject. In addition, the fol-lowing changes have been made:
Problem solutions and Supplementary Problems are presented using the metric SI units only.
The computer programs have been omitted. The use of MatLAB or other programs are available to students if more complicated problems are of interest.
The more advanced materials and problems that are not found in an introductory course have been omitted for simplicity of presentation. This book is intended to be used in an introductory course only.
A short chapter on Fatigue, a subject included on the Fundamentals of Engineering Examination, has been added. It is a modified chapter, based on a section on Fatigue written by my friend and previous colleague, Charlie Muvdi, from “Engineering Mechanics of Materials,” by B. B. Muvdi and J. W. McNabb.
A section on Combined Loading has been added.
The chapter on Centroids and Moments of Inertia has been omitted; it is assumed to have been part of a Statics course that precedes Solid Mechanics.
Strength of Materials, also called The Mechanics of Materials or Solid Mechanics, provides the basis for the design of the components that make up machines and load-bearing structures. In Statics, the forces and moments acting at various points in a structural component or at points of contact with other structures were determined. The forces, stresses, and strains existing within a component were not of interest. In Solid Mechanics, we will consider questions like, “What load will cause this structure to fail?”, “What maximum torque can this shaft transmit?”, “What material should be selected for this component?”, “At what load will this column buckle?” Such questions were not of interest in a Statics course. But, before any of these questions can be answered, we must calculate the forces and moments acting on the components that make up a structure or machine. So, Statics always precedes the study of Strength of Materials. Sometimes Statics is combined with Strength of Materials in one course since they are so closely related.