Mechanics of Materials For Dummies - Grand Format

Mechanics of Materials For Dummies gives you plain-English explanations of all the topics you'll encounter in a typical undergraduate course, including principles of equilibrium, geometric compatibility, and material behavior ; stress and its relation to force and movement ; strain and its relation to displacement ; and methods for calculating deformations and indeterminate systems. Brush up on basics : get a quick refresher on math and units, a brief review of essential statics topics, and an easy-to-follow introduction to mechanics of materials.
Sharpen your skills : find out which skills you need to master, including section property calculations, internal force diagrams, and how to locate the centroid of an area. Stop stressing : get the 411 on the basic types of stress, grasp the difference between average stress and stress at a point, and learn to transform stresses to find principal values and angles. Strain for more : discover how objects deform in response to strain, how you compute maximum and minimum strain values, and how to determine strain orientation within an object.
Compute displacements : explore different ways to compute deformations of objects under loads for both statically determinate and indeterminate systems.