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This book covers the essential topics for a second-level course in strength of materials or mechanics of materials, with an emphasis on techniques that are useful for mechanical design. Design typically involves an initial conceptual stage during which many options are considered.  At this stage, quick approximate analytical methods are crucial in determining which of the initial proposals are feasible. The ideal would be to get within 30% with a few lines of calculation. The designer also needs to develop experience as to the kinds of features in the geometry or the loading that are most likely to lead to critical conditions.

With this in mind, the author tries wherever possible to give a physical and even an intuitive interpretation to the problems under investigation. For example, students are encouraged to estimate the location of weak and strong bending axes and the resulting neutral axis of bending before performing calculations, and the author discusses ways of getting good accuracy with a simple one degree of freedom Rayleigh-Ritz approximation. Students are also encouraged to develop a feeling for structural deformation by performing simple experiments in their outside environment, such as estimating the radius to which an initially straight bar can be bent without producing permanent deformation, or convincing themselves of the dramatic difference between torsional and bending stiffness for a thin-walled open beam section by trying to bend and then twist a structural steel beam by hand-applied loads at one end.

In choosing dimensions for mechanical components, designers will expect to be guided by criteria of minimum weight, which with elementary calculations, generally leads to a thin-walled structure as an optimal solution. This consideration motivates the emphasis on thin-walled structures, but also demands that students be introduced to the limits imposed by structural instability. Emphasis is also placed on the effect of manufacturing errors on such highly-designed structures - for example, the effect of load misalignment on a beam with a large ratio between principal stiffness  and the large magnification of initial alignment or loading errors in a strut below, but not too far below the buckling load.

Additional material can be found on http://extras.springer.com/ .

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About the BookThis book is created for undergraduate Mechanics of Materials courses in Mechanical, Civil, and Aerospace Engineering departments. NEW! With Video Solutions to help students in their problem solving skills, this book makes learning and understanding easier. This adds even more value to Hibbeler s existing hallmark student-oriented features of the four colour photorealistic art program, clear, concise writing style and with more examples than any other text. Combined, all these features further contribute to students ability to master the material. This book and its supplements help address the needs that students find it difficult to apply theories and are weak in problem solving. Enhanced Features Video Solutions These are developed by Professor Edward Berger, University of Virginia, video solutions located on the Companion Website offer step-by-step solution walkthroughs of representative homework problems from each section of the text. They make efficient use of class time and office hours by showing students the complete and concise problem solving approaches that they can access anytime and view at their own pace. The videos are designed to be a flexible resource to be used however each instructor and student prefers. A valuable tutorial resource, the videos are also helpful for student self-evaluation as students can pause the videos to check their understanding and work alongside the video. These videos offer:Fully-worked Solutions Solutions show every step of representative homework problems, to help students make vital connections between concepts. Self-paced Instruction Students can navigate each problem and select, play, rewind, fast-forward, stop, and jump-to-sections within each problem s solution. 24/7 Access Help is available around the clock whenever students need it Expanded Chapter Review A more thorough end of chapter review has been developed for the 7/e. Each important point is now accompanied by the relevant equation and art from the chapter in clear, uncluttered layout. Students can have quick revisions of important concepts and solutions Updated Problems Students have a wider range of questions to practice and apply the concepts. Lecturers have more questions to select, modify and add as new questions to their resources. Extended Examples Concluding notes have been incorporated in the examples, enabling the student to extend the analysis of the example. The examples also show more than one possible solution which encourages students to formulate their own problem solving skills. Students will be able to extend the analysis of the examples with detailed solutions Enhanced Figures To appeal to the visually oriented students, the 7/e has enhanced art figures to 3D photo quality detail. ... Read more

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Neat book.
I like this book very much. I think it might be the best book for an undergrat learning mechanics of material.

Awful translation
Absolutely, positively do not buy this book if you need the Standard US edition with both standard and metric units.

I have bought a few of the SI unit books before.For example my overseas physics book is 100% identical to the $200 version that's sold in my bookstore.

Let me begin to explain the frustrations that I have with this translation.
There are several instances where the translator forgets to convert units.In several of the example problems.I often find random numbers that are printed in standard units, when they should be in metric units.There are also several cases where I have found that the numbers are wrong.When I will compare the numbers in a problem 7.47 for example, it gives 200mm when it should be 100mm.When in the standard edition the units are completely correct.

Only consider buying this book if your class will be giving you problems that are only in SI Units.But even then, watch out because there are many more errors in the SI edition than in the standard ... Read more

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Student solutions manual to listed text. Delivered via email after payment. ... Read more

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Bad paper quality
The technical content of this classic book is great, but the paper quality is absolutely horrible. The material (whatever it is) is almost toxic, as it leaves off a dusty residue that makes breathing difficult.
If you care about your health, do NOT buy this book. I'm surprised it didn't come with a warning label, as in: "Prolonged reading may cause Respiratory Complications, etc."
Finally, the book came in softcover, instead of the advertised hardcover.

One of the great Mechanics of Materials books
This book is, next to Timoshenko's works, a reference in the structural mechanics field. It's extensive and it offers a mathematically rigorous explanation of the fundamental models used to describe the behaviour of materials submitted to actions in such a way that the learning curve can be easily accompanied. All in all a great book which is a must in any structural engineer's bookshelf.

Best text book
I am a Phd student and have studied three diferrent major text books for Strength of materials. In my opinion, this is the best classic text book out there. Organized concepts, illustrated in details, with lots of theoretical and practical applications. This is the book that most of today's mechanical engineering professors used to read during their time, and it is still of great use. I would highly recommend this bible of mechanics of materials for those who love to UNDERSTAND it.

I enjoyed reading your book. It was very informative.
I borrowed your book from a student and read it thru twice.I also took notes and worked some of the problems particularily on beam flexure and shear.I also liked how the formulas were derived from calculus.I amemployed as a structural and piping draftsman your book is very useful inmy work.I may be in Toronto for the National Steel ConstructionConference in May,99 and would like to meet Dr. E.P.Popov & H.P. Popov. ... Read more

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Microstructural Randomness in Mechanics of Materials provides a number of stochastic models and methods of use in mechanics of materials along with many different types of applications in engineering. Part One, Fundamentals, shows the reader the tools available to use when solving one-, two-, and three-dimensional problems related to the mechanics of random materials. Part Two, Applications, builds on the information learned about the various methods by exploring applications important to research in the field of applied mathematics.The book's features include an introduction to general continuum mechanics and statistical continuum theories and complete coverage of lattice models and planar plasticity. ... Read more

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Designed for a first course in the mechanics of deformable bodies, this classic work emphasizes fundamental principles, using numerous applications to demonstrate and develop logical procedural methods. Instead of deriving various formulas for all types of problems, it stresses the use of free-body diagrams and the equations of equilibruim, together with the geometry of the deformed body and the observed relationship between stress and strain, for the accurate analysis of the force system acting on a body. ... Read more

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comprehensive text for students of engineering
This book is excellent text for students in civil and mechanical engineering. This illustrations allied with your explanation is good for comprehensive of strengths of materials. It's very important new editionwith computer application. ... Read more

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For the past forty years Beer and Johnston have been the uncontested leaders in the teaching of undergraduate engineering mechanics. Their careful presentation of content, unmatched levels of accuracy, and attention to detail have made their texts the standard for excellence. The revision of their classic Mechanics of Materials features an updated art and photo program as well as numerous new and revised homework problems. The text's superior Online Learning Center (www.mhhe.com/beermom4e) includes an extensive Self-paced, Mechanics, Algorithmic, Review and Tutorial (S.M.A.R.T.), created by George Staab and Brooks Breeden of The Ohio State University, that provides students with additional help on key concepts. The custom website also features animations for each chapter, lecture powerpoints, and other online resources for both instructors and students ... Read more

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These exciting books use full-color, and interesting, realistic illustrations to enhance reader comprehension. Also include a large number of worked examples that provide a good balance between initial, confidence building problems and more advanced level problems. Fundamental principles for solving problems are emphasized throughout. ... Read more

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Worse than his lectures
This book is just bad.Like calculus, statics is one of the most crucial courses for an engineering student and if you don't truly learn the material, the road ahead will be tough.This book will not help you.There are three aspects to this book: informational material (5%), example problems (45%), end of section problems (50%).It can feel like some of the sections with informational material, can fit on an index card.

The author has taken the approach of "Learning by doing" and as such, there are loads of example problems.Some sections talk about a given principle for less than half a page and then have 6+ pages of example problems.This would be an excellent thing, however the explanations on the applicaton of the principles in an example is curt and almost always a re-hash of the already very brief paragraphs in the "informational" section.This leads you to spend most of your time just trying to follow the logic (which isn't explained) in the example problem at which point your statics class becomes more of a self-taught experience.

Great price Great condition
The book arrived quickly and was in excellent condition, cost was great too, about half the price I would have paid at our campus book store

Excellent, Thourough Statics Text
The greatest feature of this book is the generous use of examples throughout.For every type of problem, there is some close example that you can refer to.

Even though I didn't particularly enjoy the class forwhich this text was assigned, I think that the book itself is a greatresource, and should be recognized as so. ... Read more

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The structures of living tissues are continually changing due to growth and response to the tissue environment, including the mechanical environment. Tissue Mechanics is an in-depth look at the mechanics of tissues. Tissue Mechanics describes the nature of the composite components of a tissue, the cellular processes that produce these constituents, the assembly of the constituents into a hierarchical structure, and the behavior of the tissue’s composite structure in the adaptation to its mechanical environment.

Organized as a textbook for the student needing to acquire the core competencies, Tissue Mechanics will meet the demands of advanced undergraduate or graduate coursework in Biomedical Engineering, as well as, Chemical, Civil, and Mechanical Engineering.

Key features:

• Detailed Illustrations
• Example problems, including problems at the end of sections
• A separate solutions manual available for course instructors
• A website (http://tissue-mechanics.com/) that has been established to provide supplemental material for the book, including downloadable additional chapters on specific tissues, downloadable PowerPoint presentations of all the book's chapters, and additional exercises and examples for the existing chapters.

About the Authors:

Stephen C. Cowin is a City University of New York Distinguished Professor, Departments of Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering, City College of the City University of New York and also an Adjunct Professor of Orthopaedics, at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York, New York. In 1985 he received the Society of Tulane Engineers and Lee H. Johnson Award for Teaching Excellence and a recipient of the European Society of Biomechanics Research Award in 1994. In 1999 he received the H. R. Lissner medal of the ASME for contributions to biomedical engineering. In 2004 he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and he also received the Maurice A. Biot medal of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

Stephen B. Doty is a Senior Scientist at Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York and Adjunct Professor, School of Dental and Oral Surgery, Columbia University, New York, NY. He has over 100 publications in the field of anatomy, developmental biology, and the physiology of skeletal and connective tissues. His honors include several commendations for participation in the Russian/NASA spaceflights, the Spacelab Life Science NASA spaceflights, and numerous Shuttle missions that studied the influence of spaceflight on skeletal physiology. He presently is on the scientific advisory board of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, Houston, Texas.

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Recommended both as a text for courses in structural aspects of composite materials as well as for practicing structures engineers and researchers involved with composites. ... Read more

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Nice book for advanced learners
This book is only for those who want to learn mechanics of materials at graduate or higher level. ... Read more

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Advanced Mechanics of Materials, by William B. Bickford, is the first book in its field to demonstrate the relationship of advanced topics in mechanics of materials in a consistent manner. Other books on the subject present the mechanics of materials as a collection of unrelated topics. Using superior explanations and pedagogy, Dr. Bickford provides the engineer with a book they can use to relate theory to practice.

Features:
employs a consistent chapter-by-chapter treatment stressing the basic ideas ofequilibrium, deformation, and material behavior develops the finite element method in Chapter 2 and integrates finite element applications in several later chapters provides numerous worked examples throughout the text to illustrate the application of theory to practical problems provides instructors with a solutions manual for all the problems in the text ... Read more

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Beware!
This textbook on advanced stress and strain analysis has the potential to become a good teaching tool and reference.Unfortunately, the first edition does not appear to have been edited before publication and isreplete with typographical errors and incorrect formulae. Some of thefigures have been (re-?)drawn incorrectly. Several of the (typed) answersin the Solutions Manual are wrong.In addition, the author makes a numberof key assumptions which are unstated.

We are well beyond the erratasheet stage here.Learn from my mistake: DO NOT use this text for teachinguntil it is revised. ... Read more

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If you need a book that relates the core principles of quantum mechanics to modern applications in engineering, physics, and nanotechnology, this is it. Students will appreciate the book's applied emphasis, which illustrates theoretical concepts with examples of nanostructured materials, optics, and semiconductor devices. The many worked examples and more than 160 homework problems help students to problem solve and to practice applications of theory. Without assuming a prior knowledge of high-level physics or classical mechanics, the text introduces Schrodinger's equation, operators, and approximation methods. Systems, including the hydrogen atom and crystalline materials, are analyzed in detail. More advanced subjects, such as density matrices, quantum optics, and quantum information, are also covered. Practical applications and algorithms for the computational analysis of simple structures make this an ideal introduction to quantum mechanics for students of engineering, physics, nanotechnology, and other disciplines. Additional resources available from www.cambridge.org/9780521897839. ... Read more

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Well-written, clear text
It's rare that I am happy about the textbook I assign for classes; many texts cover the wrong material, have significant holes, or are difficult for students to follow. I had used Miller's lecture notes a number of years ago as an undergrad, so I was excited when this book was published in time for the Applied QM class I started teaching last fall. The only downside I can see is that I often find it hard to improve upon the book's explanations; I sometimes feel as though I have very little to add.

good for self-learning!
My major is physics, and i bought this book for self-learning. The book is clear and requires less background knowledge, 2 years of basic college math and physics are enough. The book was well written with good explainations. Specialy with appendices can help you know what physics, math background you need for the subject.

Excellent intro book
As a physicist, I bought this book more for curiosity than to study itself. And I must confess I was really surprised by the conciseness of the text. It is a really nice and good introductory book. It doesn't go into the details and math formalism, but it does provide a nice physical insight, as well as good explanations. I recommend this book if you are looking for an introductory quantum mechanics text.

Excellent introductory quantum mechanics book for self-study that I have found
I am teaching myself quantum mechanics with the goal of understanding original research articles.I have found Miller to be extraordinarily well written and suitable for self-study. As an overall introduction to QM for self-study, I think Miller would be hard to beat, providing a nice balance between physical applications and mathematics. (For those sensitive to the physical quality of a book, Miller is very nicely produced and easy on aging eyes.)

Well-Written and Not Confusing, Extremely Complete
Many textbooks, in general, suffer in readability due to the author assuming the reader thinks just as he or she does, or knows a sufficient amount of information prior to reading. David Miller is one of those authors that is just the opposite: he never assumes you know anything that isn't in his book (other than that you know how to read and do basic math). In addition, Miller has the unique ability to relate complex and complicated concepts to common examples. You will find that reading through this text is much smoother than with other textbooks. There are also solutions to certain problems and viewgraphs available for free online.

The topics in the book cover the basic quantum mechanical scenarios, such as simple 1D/3D potentials, operators, the uncertainty principle (taught in two ways...Griffiths provides a third), matrix formalism, Dirac notation, angular momentum, spin, and the Hydrogen atom. In addition, more advanced topics, such as perturbation theory (time independent and dependent), the density matrix, and approximation techniques. Miller also relates much of the material to photonics topics, such as absorption, Fermi's Golden Rule, non-linear effects, refractive index, and much more. As an EE professor, he also covers some band theory of crystalline solids.

I feel that this book is extremely complete and will be extremely useful for anyone wanting to learn Quantum Mechanics. I've also used Griffiths and Singh, which are also excellent texts. I feel that Griffiths accompanies this text very well (so having both is more than complete). I have yet to find an error in the text, and this is most likely because Miller wrote this originally as a course reader that was published through Stanford. The course reader has been used by other professors and hundreds of student prior to publishing. This means that your learning won't be plagued or interrupted with errors, or with the need to purchase a new edition. ... Read more

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This book should be of interest to introductory and intermediate materials science undergraduates. ... Read more

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Biomedical Engineering Principles in Sports contains in-depth discussions on the fundamental biomechanical and physiological principles underlying the acts of throwing, shooting, hitting, kicking, and tackling in sports, as well as vision training, sports injury, and rehabilitation. The topics include:

-Golf ball aerodynamics and golf club design,

-Golf swing and putting biomechanics,

-Tennis ball aerodynamics and ball- and shoe-surface interactions,

-Tennis stroke mechanics and optimizing ball-racket interactions,

-Baseball pitching biomechanics and perceptual illusions of batters,

-Football forward pass aerodynamics and tackling biomechanics,

-Soccer biomechanics,

-Basketball aerodynamics and biomechanics,

-Vision training in sports,

-Children maturation and performance,

-Rehabilitation and medical advances in treatment of sports injuries.

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This application-oriented book introduces the associations between contact mechanics and friction and with it offers a deeper understanding of tribology. It deals with the associated phenomena of contact, adhesion, capillary forces, friction, lubrication, and wear from one consistent viewpoint. The author goes into (1) methods of rough estimation of tribological quantities, (2) methods for analytical calculations which attempt to minimize the necessary complexity, (3) the crossover into numerical simulation methods. With these methods the author conveys a consistent view of tribological processes in various scales of magnitude (from nanotribology to earthquake research).

Also, system dynamic aspects of tribological systems, such as squeal and its suppression as well as other types of instabilities and spatial patterns are investigated.

This book contains problems and worked solutions for individual chapters in which the reader can apply the theory to practical situations and deepen the understanding of the material.