Strength of Materials and Structures

Preface * Introduction * Tension and compression: direct stress * Pin-jointed frames or trusses * Shearing stress * Joints and connections * Analysis of stress and strain * Thin shells under internal pressure * Bending moments and shearing forces * Geometrical properties of cross-sections * Longitudinal stresses in beams * Shearing stresses in beams * Beams of two materials * Bending stresses and direct stresses combined * Deflections of beams * Built-in and continuous beams * Plastic bending of mild-steel beams * Torsion of circular shafts and thin-walled tubes * Energy methods * Buckling of columns and beams * Lateral deflections of circular plates * Torsion of non-circular sections * Thick circular cylinders, discs and spheres * Introduction to matrix algebra * Matrix methods of structural analysis * The finite element method * Structural vibrations.