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This textbook provides a conceptual understanding of the theories and formulae. It focuses on basic principles, emphasizing problem solving through a series of tutorials and problems, and encourages both numerical and conceptual approaches -- now including basic plates and shells and plastic deformation, dynamics and portal frames and arches.
List of contents
Introduction. Axial tension and compression. Torsion. Shear and bending moment. Bending stresses in symmetric beams. Deflection of beams under bending. Complex stresses. Complex strains and strain gauges. Theories of elastic failure. Buckling of columns. Energy method. Bending of thin plates. Impact loads and vibration.
About the author
Jianqiao Ye is professor of mechanical engineering at Lancaster University, UK, and a fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He is former reader in structural and materials modeling at the School of Civil Engineering in the University of Leeds and he has worked as a university lecturer for about thirty years. His research and teaching are concerned primarily with the mathematical and computer modeling of structures and materials.
Summary
This textbook provides a conceptual understanding of the theories and formulae. It focuses on basic principles, emphasizing problem solving through a series of tutorials and problems, and encourages both numerical and conceptual approaches -- now including basic plates and shells and plastic deformation, dynamics and portal frames and arches.
