Geo.Engineerings

George T. Hahn, Carol A. Rubin, Kaushik A. Iyer ... 
280 pages - Publisher: Woodhead Publishing; (December, 2005) ...
Language: English - ISBN-10: 1845691199 - ISBN-13: 978-1845691196 ...

Engineers employ shear connections - riveted and bolted butt and lap joints - in a wide range of structures and machines. Ordinary stress analyses of joints are unable to define the features that ultimately govern fatigue and fretting and provide bases for design. Detailed analyses have only become possible recently with advances in finite element methods and computing capabilities. This text places into context the results of over 150 detailed 2D and 3D finite element analyses of aluminum and steel shear connections so that engineers can optimize the design and reliability of shear joints.

Surya Patnaik, Dale Hopkins ... 
750 pages - Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann; 1st edition (October 28, 2003)
Language: English - ISBN-10: 0750674024 - ISBN-13: 978-0121820114

Strength of Materials provides a comprehensive overview of the latest theory of strength of materials. The unified theory presented in this book is developed around three concepts: Hooke's Law, Equilibrium Equations, and Compatibility conditions. The first two of these methods have been fully understood, but clearly are indirect methods with limitations. Through research, the authors have come to understand compatibility conditions, which, until now, had remained in an immature state of development. This method, the Integrated Force Method (IFM) couples equilibrium and compatibility conditions to determine forces directly.

The combination of these methods allows engineering students from a variety of disciplines to comprehend and compare the attributes of each. The concept that IFM strength of materials theory is problem independent, and can be easily generalized for solving difficult problems in linear, nonlinear, and dynamic regimes is focused upon. Discussion of the theory is limited to simple linear analysis problems suitable for an undergraduate course in strength of materials. To support the teaching application of the book there are problems and an instructor's manual.

Provides a novel approach integrating two popular indirect solution methods with newly researched, more direct conditions  + Completes the previously partial theory of strength of materials  + A new frontier in solid mechanics

Michael Alexander, Dick Kusleika ... 816 pages - Publisher: Wiley; 1st edition (January, 2016) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 1119067863 - ISBN-13: 978-1119067863 ...