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Russell C. Hibbeler ... 784 pages - Publisher: Prentice Hall; 14th edition (April 10, 2015) ... 
Language: English - ISBN-10: 0133915387 - ISBN-13: 978-0133915389 ...

A Proven Approach to Conceptual Understanding and Problem-solving Skills: Engineering Mechanics: Dynamics excels in providing a clear and thorough presentation of the theory and application of engineering mechanics. Engineering Mechanics empowers students to succeed by drawing upon Professor Hibbeler’s everyday classroom experience and his knowledge of how students learn. This text is shaped by the comments and suggestions of hundreds of reviewers in the teaching profession, as well as many of the author’s students.

The Fourteenth Edition includes new Preliminary Problems, which are intended to help students develop conceptual understanding and build problem-solving skills. The text features a large variety of problems from a broad range of engineering disciplines, stressing practical, realistic situations encountered in professional practice, and having varying levels of difficulty.

Also Available with MasteringEngineering: an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Interactive, self-paced tutorials provide individualized coaching to help students stay on track. With a wide range of activities available, students can actively learn, understand, and retain even the most difficult concepts. The text and MasteringEngineering work together to guide students through engineering concepts with a multi-step approach to problems.

William Palm III ... 576 pages - Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education; 3rd edition (February, 2010) - Language: English - ISBN-10: 0073534870 - ISBN-13: 978-0073534879.

Introduction to MATLAB for Engineers is a simple, concise book designed to be useful for beginners and to be kept as a reference. MATLAB is a globally available standard computational tool for engineers and scientists. The terminology, syntax, and the use of the programming language are well defined, and the organization of the material makes it easy to locate information and navigate through the textbook. The text covers all the major capabilities of MATLAB that are useful for beginning students.

Teodor M. Atanackovic, Ardeshir Guran ... 
374 pages - Publisher: Birkhäuser; (June 16, 2000)
Language: English - ISBN-10: 081764072X - ISBN-13: 978-3540425373

This book is intended to be an introduction to elasticity theory. It is as­ sumed that the student, before reading this book, has had courses in me­ chanics (statics, dynamics) and strength of materials (mechanics of mate­ rials). It is written at a level for undergraduate and beginning graduate engineering students in mechanical, civil, or aerospace engineering. As a background in mathematics, readers are expected to have had courses in ad­ vanced calculus, linear algebra, and differential equations. Our experience in teaching elasticity theory to engineering students leads us to believe that the course must be problem-solving oriented. We believe that formulation and solution of the problems is at the heart of elasticity theory. 1 Of course orientation to problem-solving philosophy does not exclude the need to study fundamentals. By fundamentals we mean both mechanical concepts such as stress, deformation and strain, compatibility conditions, constitu­ tive relations, energy of deformation, and mathematical methods, such as partial differential equations, complex variable and variational methods, and numerical techniques. We are aware of many excellent books on elasticity, some of which are listed in the References. If we are to state what differentiates our book from other similar texts we could, besides the already stated problem-solving ori­ entation, list the following: study of deformations that are not necessarily small, selection of problems that we treat, and the use of Cartesian tensors only.

Jeffery Cooper ... 294 pages - Publisher: Academic Press; 1st edition (January, 2001) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 012187625X - ISBN-13: 978-0121876258 ...

Offering a concise collection of MatLab programs and exercises to accompany a third semester course in multivariable calculus, A MatLab Companion for Multivariable Calculus introduces simple numerical procedures such as numerical differentiation, numerical integration and Newton's method in several variables, thereby allowing students to tackle realistic problems. The many examples show students how to use MatLab effectively and easily in many contexts. Numerous exercises in mathematics and applications areas are presented, graded from routine to more demanding projects requiring some programming. Matlab M-files are provided on the Harcourt/Academic Press web site at http://www.harcourt-ap.com/matlab.html. It includes: Computer-oriented material that complements the essential topics in multivariable calculus + Main ideas presented with examples of computations and graphics displays using MATLAB  + Numerous examples of short code in the text, which can be modified for use with the exercises + MATLAB files are used to implement graphics displays and contain a collection of mfiles which can serve as demos.

David V. Hutton ... 
494 pages - Publisher: Tata McGraw Hill India; 1st edition (2003)
Language: English - ISBN-10: 0070601224 - ISBN-13: 978-0070601222

This new text, intended for the senior undergraduate finite element course in mechanical, civil and aerospace engineering departments, gives students a solid, practical understanding of the principles of the finite element method within a variety of engineering applications.

Hutton discusses basic theory of the finite element method while avoiding variational calculus, instead focusing upon the engineering mechanics and mathematical background that may be expected of senior engineering students. The text relies upon basic equilibrium principles, introduction of the principle of minimum potential energy, and the Galerkin finite element method, which readily allows application of finite element analysis to nonstructural problems.

The text is software-independent, making it flexible enough for use in a wide variety of programs, and offers a good selection of homework problems and examples. A Book Website is also included, with book illustrations for class presentation; complete problem solutions (password protected); the FEPC 2-D finite element program for student use; instructions on FEPC and its use with the text; and links to commercial FEA sites.

Chandrakant S. Desai, J. T. Christian ... 783 pages - Publisher: McGraw-Hill; (September, 1977) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 0070165424 - ISBN-13: 978-0070165427.

CONTENTS: 1 / INTRODUCTION, NUMERICAL METHODS, AND SPECIAL TOPICS Chandrakant S. Desai and John T. Christian 2/ CONSTITUTIVE LAWS FOR GEOLOGIC MEDIA 65 John T. Christian and Chandrakant S. Desai 3/ VISCOPLASTICITY: A GENERALIZED MODEL FOR DESCRIPTION OF SOIL BEHAVIOR 116 O. C. Zienkiewicz and C. Humpheson 4/ FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS FOR DISCONTINUOUS ROCKS Richard E. Goodman and Christopher St. John 5 / BEAMS, SLABS, AND PAVEMENTS Y. K. Cheung 6/ SHALLOW FOUNDATIONS John T. Christian 7/ DEEP FOUNDATIONS Chandrakant S. Desai 8/ WAVE EQUATION ANALYSIS OF PILING BEHAVIOR Harry M. Coyle, Lee L. Lowery, Jr., and Teddy J. Hirsch 9/ LATERALLY LOADED PILES Lymon C. Reese and Chandrakant S. Desai 10 / SETTLEMENT OF PILE FOUNDATIONS Harry G. Poulos 11 / ONE-DIMENSIONAL CONSOLIDATION Robert L. Schiffman and Santosh K. Arya 12/ TWO- AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONSOLIDATION John T. Christian 13/ FOUNDATIONS IN EXPANSIVE SOILS Robert L. Lytton 14/ FLOW THROUGH POROUS MEDIA Chandrakant S. Desai 15/ STATIC ANALYSIS OF EARTH RETAINING STRUCTURES G. W. Clough and Y. Tsui 16/ EMBANKMENTS AND EXCAVATIONS Fred H. Kulhawy 17 / NUMERICAL AND PHYSICAL MODELING Ian M. Smith 18/ STATIC ANALYSIS FOR UNDERGROUND OPENINGS IN JOINTED ROCK Walter Wittke 19/ SOIL AMPLIFICATION OF EARTHQUAKES Jose M. Roesset 20 / TWO- AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL DYNAMIC ANALYSES John T. Christian, Jose M. Roesset, and Chandrakant S. Desai 21/ STABILITY ANALYSIS BY PLASTICITY THEORY 1. R. Booker and E. H. Davis