Solid Mechanics

by William F. Hosford

• ISBN13: 9780521192293
• ISBN10: 0521192293
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-03-22
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This is a textbook for courses in civil and mechanical engineering that are commonly called Strength of Materials or Mechanics of Materials. The intent of this book is to provide 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.

Author Biography

William F. Hosford is a Professor Emeritus of Materials Science at the University of Michigan. He is the author of numerous research publications and books, including Materials for Engineers; Metal Forming, third edition (with Robert M. Caddell); Materials Science: An Intermediate Text; , Reporting Results (with David C. Van Aken); Mechanics of Crystals and Textured Polycrystais; Mechanical Metallurgy; and Wilderness Canoe Tripping.

Table of Contents

Stress, strain and boundary conditions

Elasticity

Mechanical testing

Strain hardening

Plasticity theory

Temperature and strain-rate

Viscoelasticity

Creep and stress rupture

Ductility and fracture

Fracture mechanics

Fatigue

Polymers and ceramics

Composites

Forming

Anisotropy

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