No comments about Materials at Low Temperatures.

5 comments about Advanced Mechanics of Materials.

1. I don't subscribe to the point of view of those people who don't like this book. The book is clear, coincise, well written. I used in one of my Master's classes, and I loved it. It covers: stress theory, elasticity, fatigue analysis, basics of FE method, basic crack theory. Again, as I use to write in all my reviews: for each one of the chapters, one may find dozens of books. For the beginner and the practicioner this book is OK.
   
   It has been say: "Computers make a good engineer a better one, a bad engineer a dangerous man". IF you don't know the THEORY, you will FAIL in the practice.
   
   Do you really think one needs to perform a FEM analysis in order to know that as the radius of a round approaches zero, the stress at a point reaches the infinity?!?
   
   Here you will find the theory needed to SAFELY perform structural analysis (with or without computers).
   
   I think this book is a good one, and should stand in every engineer's bookshelf



2. This is quite possibly the worst textbook ever, along with Vibrations by Balachandran. It seems these people never heard about finite element analysis. The examples are confusing and the treatment of the different subjects is usually quite poor.



3. I've used this book both as a graduate student and a professor in civil/mechanical engineering. This book fills an important gap in advanced mechanics of materials/applied elasticity books (e.g. Ugural & Fenster, Cook & Young, Barber). Why? It contains a complete chapter on static failure theories including both pressure-independent (von Mises, Tresca) and pressure-dependent (Coulomb and Drucker-Prager) approaches. It also includes a full chapter on fracture mechanics, traditional fatigue, stress concentration factors, and creep. This book is a great launching point for courses involving plates & shells, elastic stability, and plasticity. However, this is not an elasticity text. Neither is this book a text on finite element analysis, although the publisher has an online chapter on FEA available. The reading level is challenging. Period. For an easier read, try Barber's "Intermediate Mechanics of Materials" or Cook and Young's "Advanced Mechanics of Materials." The bottom line is that this classic book, based on the 1931 text of Fred Seely of the Univ. of Illinois, is very useful, but it's not for the faint-hearted.



4. I used Cook & Young (an adequate textbook) for my MS class on advanced strength (in '85) but soon after I started working I bought a copy of this one because it is better as a reference for professional stress analysts. This book explains what's going on behind the screen of all those FEA programs some reviewers seem to love so much. Well guys, how do you know what the answer means if you haven't a clue how the answer was developed, or what the question meant. Boresi/Sidebottom offers an excellent outline of solid mechanics from the strength of materials perspetive, as opposed to continuum mechanics or elastcity. The sections of theories of failure are very good.



5. I realy like this book as a reference guide. I design powertrain parts for medium and light duty trucks and passcars. I typically use the formulas in this book to evaluate new designs and patent ideas before a great deal time and money is put into the program just to find out that it wont work. It is a great resorce for the first look at structural integerity and fatiuge life before investing in FEA.

5 comments about Advanced Strength and Applied Stress Analysis.

1. I have taught Advanced Strength of Materials at three different universities and without a doubt this is the worst textbook that I have ever used or seen. The text was selected before I started teaching at New Mexico Tech and I did not have time to change before the semester started. There are numerous mistakes in the example problems, the material is never explained in a fashion that the students can understand, the material is badly organized, and the author never states what assunptions are built in to the equations that he uses. A totally unsatisfactory book!!



2. Mathematical derivations are VERY complete and relatively straight forward. There is a TON of material covered, and I constantly refer back to it in my graduate-level Mechancial Engr. courses. - even F.E.M.



3. Well, I have lots of book and this is one of the books I have in my bookshelf. Obviously I have not read the entire book but I did of course read pages from 302 to 309. I was particularly interested in Composite Beams in Bending and those 7 pages did help me. I am not sure if there were any errors in the mathematical calculations as noted by some earlier reviewer but these 7 pages looked okay to me.

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4. Make sure that you keep your deformable solids book because this book does not contain any of the basics for reference.



5. Like others I have found this book rather complex. It's examples are often long and tedious and leave a lot of steps and derivations to the reader. Understanding it requires a very strong maths background. I'm using it for a fourth year university subject. After completing a pre-requisite stress analysis subject, I find the jump between Mechanics of Materials (Hibbeler) to this book a rather large one.

1 comments about Strength of Materials.

1. This book is being used as a course book of st. of materials in n.e.d. university but the great insufficiency of this book is about its text,which on many ocassions remains a mystery.one particular aspect which i would like to enlighten is about chapter 11 and the topic is the buckling phenomena which is particularly ill-explained.Ihope my review would be given due consideration.

No comments about Ultrananocrystalline Diamond: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications.

1 comments about Optical Materials.

1. This book is ambitious in its scope. However it is near abysmal in its editing. There are dozens of errors in the equations and some in the text. Derivations were not checked with original sources and so contain assumptions that are not valid in all cases. As an overall introduction to optical materials this book is OK, but don't rely on it for equations if your job (or your grade) depends on it.

No comments about Corrosion Resistant Materials Handbook.

No comments about Elasticity of Transversely Isotropic Materials (Solid Mechanics and Its Applications) (Solid Mechanics and Its Applications).

1 comments about Nanowires and Nanobelts: Materials, Properties and Devices: Volume 1: Metal and Semiconductor Nanowires.

1. I would like this book more if the price wasn't so high. I can find most of the papers cited in this book online, but this book makes searches go much faster.

No comments about W. T. Koiter's Elastic Stability of Solids and Structures.