Mechanics of Materials (9th Edition)

Description

Containing Hibbeler’s hallmark student-oriented features, this text is in four-color with a photorealistic art program designed to help students visualize difficult concepts. A clear, concise writing style and more examples than any other text further contribute to students’ ability to master the material.

Key Features

• Problem Solving: A large variety of problem types from a broad range of engineering disciplines, stress practical, realistic situations encountered in professional practice, varying levels of difficulty, and problems that involve solution by computer.
• Visualization: This text is in four-color with a photorealistic art program designed to help students visualize difficult concepts.
• Review and Student Support: A thorough end of chapter review provides students with a concise tool for reviewing chapter contents.
• Accuracy: The accuracy of the text and problem solutions has been thoroughly checked by four other parties.

Table of Contents

1. Stress
2. Strain
3. Mechanical Properties of Materials
4. Axial Load
5. Torsion
6. Bending
7. Transverse Shear
8. Combined Loadings
9. Stress Transformation
10. Strain Transformation
11. Design of Beams and Shafts
12. Deflection of Beams and Shafts
13. Buckling of Columns
14. Energy Methods

Author Description

Russell C. Hibbeler graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana with a BS in Civil Engineering (major in Structures) and an MS in Nuclear Engineering. He obtained his PhD in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Northwestern University.

Hibbeler’s professional experience includes postdoctoral work in reactor safety and analysis at Argonne National Laboratory, and structural work at Chicago Bridge and Iron, as well as Sargent and Lundy in Tucson. He has practiced engineering in Ohio, New York, and Louisiana