1 comments about A Physical Introduction to Fluid Mechanics.

1. This book was required for a class. It could use some more examples but its a good book overall. I want to give a shout out to all my classmates at City College of New York, Grove School of Emgineering. Espcially the ME department. - Stokely

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4 comments about Applied Fluid Mechanics (5th Edition).

1. I am the type of person who generally hates the way that texts are written. I have always said, that if I were to write a text, it would be this way. The whole class talks about this book, we love it at at the University here.



2. This is a great text for technology based fluid mechanics. To elementary for an engineering student, but then it was meant for an engineering technology student. I find it easy to use. My students love it. There are few, if any, technology based fluid mechanics texts available of this caliber. I only wish it were less expensive.



3. The book is very shallow and not worth considering for any engineering or any technical degree. it might be good for high school level pre-engineering classes, but difinetly not at college or university level.



4. This book was the assigned reading material for my engineering technology course. Its primary purpose was to give us an `introduction' to fluid related concepts, and in that area I would say it was very successful. This books writing style is extremely easy to follow, and unlike some of my other textbooks was actually enjoyable to read. It provided step by step instructions on how to solve problems, and also offered more than enough problems for the students to solve themselves. The only issue I have with this book relates to the rather limited examples it provides. In its solutions it illustrates how to solve the simple problems, but negates to do the more complicated ones which sometimes left me clueless on how to proceed. This book is also rather expansive and does not go very deep into the subject.. If your looking for a good introduction book for your course, or some extra learning material this is a great choice. If you're a more advanced reader, I suggest you look elsewhere.

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3 comments about Elasticity (Solid Mechanics and Its Applications).

1. This book will introduce governing equations of linear elasticity and will focus on solutions of boundary value problems in both two and three dimensions using several different methods.



2. Unfortunately, Barber's Elasticity is marred by a good deal of errata and does not make clear important assumptions in several derivations, most notably in dealing with curved beams. There are better texts available on this subject.



3. This is a superb graduate level textbook on linear elasticity, by an author well-recognized for his own research on this topic. Please notice that the 2nd edition of the book is greatly expanded and improved from the 1st edition. Elasticity is a "classic" subject of advanced mechanics education, and the older classic books by Timoshenko and Sokolnikoff take the subject to the mid-20th century. Since then, however, important "broad" solutions have been added, such as singular stresses in cracks/dislocations/disclinations, or micromechanics-type of problems dealing with inhomogeneities and transformation strains in the spirit of Eshelby. Beyond that, symbolic math packages now allow the instruction of elasticity in a very different manner from, say, 15 years ago. Barber has written his book in a way that allows, I believe, this easy incorporation of symbolic math packages into the course material.
   
   We have used Barber's book three times for teaching a graduate course on elasticity, and the students (both MS and PhD levels) have found the book lucid and succinct. It contains a good number of homework problems, ranging from easier to quite challenging. A very attractive feature of the book is that a complete, detailed solution manual is available to instructors (from the author at the Univ. of Michigan.) A very extensive list of symbolic math files for computation of stresses and displacements from 2-D and 3-D potentials is also available from the author.
   
   Contrary to other books on elasticity, Barber's book does not devote too much space on tensor analysis in the beginning. Students are most likely exposed to these tools in a course on continuum mechanics. I like this approach (Timoshenko follows the same view in his classic monograph), since it allows the instructor to jump right into solving elasticity problems.
   
   One advantage of the book is its modern approach: There are chapters on crack-tip singular stresses, and dislocations. The standard material on 2-D problems are presented both in rectangular and polar coordinates. Barber has a beautiful discussion on generating independent solutions of the biharmonic equation that is clear and presented from first principles. The discussion of the St. Venant assumption in the context of the cantilever loaded by a shear force at its end is also an educational gem, combining the solution of the half-plane loaded by sinusoidal tractions with an estimate of the decay rate of the equilibrated "corrective" tractions. The discussion of the Williams singular stresses in the wedge and in the crack limit is also highly educational, one of the best I have seen in a textbook.
   
   The 3-D presentation is also well written. This topic may seem incomprehensible and arbitrary to many beginning grad students, but Barber starts from simple solutions (Lame potential) and then proceeds to more involved potentials (solving biharmonic equations, i.e. Love, Galerkin, or harmonic equations, i.e. Papkovich-Neuber). The extension of these ideas to solving half-space problems is presented very systematically (the clearest approach I have seen in a textbook) by building a list of solutions each of which identifies a specific type of traction that is easily made to vanish at the half-space boundary. There is also a well-written section on sphere problems using spherical harmonics, on the complex variable formulation of 2-D problems, as well as on thermal stresses.
   
   The contact section is also well written. The presentation of 2-D contact is systematic and very educational, hinging on the use of Fourier analysis and the half-plane point force solutions to solve contact with flat punches and cylinders.
   
   A useful educational feature of the 2-D section is a feature that many instructors will find attractive: A list of all the biharmonic solutions in terms of polynomial or polar coordinate functions, including both stresses and displacements. Students love these tables: They allow the quick "building"of solutions by inspection.
   
   In summary, this is a well-written textbook, greatly recommended for an advanced undergrad and certainly for a grad-level course on elasticity. I would love to see a greater number of problems, both medium and more challenging, and, perhaps, an expanded section on energy principles, mostly minimum potential energy.

4 comments about Fundamentals of Biomechanics: Equilibrium, Motion, and Deformation.

1. This book is to the point, easy to understand and a good addition to a library for anyone interested in biomechanics. It is simple without becoming too simple and the examples are well thought out.



2. This book is very helpful. It is an easy read and fully explains the principles and ideas the book is trying to convey. I highly recommend purchasing it.



3. This textbook provides a very comprehensive exploration of the basic fundamentals of biomechanics. It is an excellent overview of force vector, moment and torque, statics, deformable body mechanics, stress and strain, dynamics, kinetics, kinematics, and impulse and momentum. It even provides a review of the mathematics required for understanding the many concepts introduced in the book. Each chapter has examples of the principles introduced and practice exercises. As a biomechanist, I own many textbooks on biomechanics, many of which concentrate on just one of the many areas covered so concisely in this book. To me, this would be the best teaching textbook currently available.



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