1. Strength of Materials
| 1."Strength of Materials Vol. I" by S P Timonshenko
Book Review: The book contains the addition of new topics based on the recent advancements in Strength of Materials. It contains detailed information about bending of beams in a plane which is not the plane of symmetry. It also contains information on the bending of bars. The importance of shear center which is very useful in the case of thin walled structures is also described in the book. Each concept is reinforced with examples and exercises which enhances the understanding of the subject. The different topics covered are stress, strain, rotating disc, energy methods, material stressing and so on.
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| 2."Strength of Materials Vol.II" by S P Timonshenko
“Strength of Materials Vol.II” Book Review: This book provides a detailed overview on strength of materials. It covers chapters like normal stresses on planes perpendicular to x, y, and z planes, normal stress perpendicular to normal n, normal stress at yield point, normal working stress, shear stress, analysis of stress and strain, shearing force and bending moment, stresses in transversely loaded beams, deflection in transversely loaded beams, statically indeterminate problems in bending, beams in variable cross section beams of two materials, torsion, energy of strain and much more. It is designed focusing on students in various engineering fields like chemical, mechanical, civil, etc.
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| 3."Theory of Elasticity" by S P Timonshenko and J N Goodier
“Theory of Elasticity” Book Review: This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the Theory of Elasticity in a simple to understand form. It provides a compilation of solutions of special problems that are important in engineering practice and design space. It covers chapters like shear stress, analysis of stress and strain, shearing force and bending moment and more. It provides numerous solved and unsolved examples with detailed explanation. The book is designed focusing on students and teachers of various engineering streams like mechanical, chemical, civil, and more.
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| 4."Engineering Mechanics of Solids" by Egor P Popov
Book Review: This book contains comprehensive information on engineering mechanics of solids. Newly emerging fields are also included in the book which are probabilistic methods and matrix methods of structural analysis. Importance has been laid on SI units and intuitive approaches for calculating axial stress are also included in the book. Various chapters on mechanical properties of materials are also included in the group. Chapters on advanced analytic expression for cycle loading and surface for brittle materials is also included in the group. This book is the best reference for civil, mechanical and aeronautical engineers.
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| 5."Advanced Mechanics of Solids" by Srinath L N
Book Review: This book contains various chapters on Stress analysis, Strain analysis and stress and strain analysis for isotropic solids. Various theorems related to Virtual work, Castigliano, Kirchoff, Menabria and many others are discussed in the book. Torsion of circular, elliptical, equilateral triangular bars are also discussed in the book. Analysis of axisymmetric problems like rotating disks, shafts and cylinders are also discussed in the book. Various problems are solved using the theory of elasticity approach. With the inclusion of all these topics, the book provides a good foundation in Mechanics of deformable solids.
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| 6."Strength of Materials" by Bhavikatti
“Strength of Materials” Book Review: This book provides a comprehensive overview of the subject of strength of materials. It is designed focusing on students and teachers of undergraduate courses in the field of mechanical, civil, chemical, aeronautical and others. It provides numerous examples and solutions with mathematical equations and explanations. It covers chapters like normal stresses on planes perpendicular to x, y, and z planes, normal stress perpendicular to normal n, normal working stress, shear stress, normal stress at yield point, analysis of stress and strain, stresses in transversely loaded beams, shearing force and bending moment.
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| 7."Mechanics of Structures" by Junarkar S B
“Mechanics of Structures” Book Review: This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Mechanics of Structures. It is designed focusing on students and teachers for undergraduate courses in the field of civil, chemical, mechanical, and other engineering. It provides numerous solved and unsolved examples with detailed explanation. It provides several real-world examples to make it easy for readers to understand the concepts and apply them in their day to day activities. It contains mathematical and theoretical explanations with diagrams and graphs.
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| 8."Solid Mechanics" by Kazimi S M A
“Solid Mechanics” Book Review: This book provides details on conventional strength of materials by integrating the basic concepts of elasticity and plasticity with the traditional methods of strength of materials. It is designed for students and teachers in the field of engineering and science. It discusses structural phenomena like bending, torsion, bucking, etc. and strain energy, creep, fatigue etc. It uses approximate methods and gives them due weightage at the time of design for better understanding. The first part of the book deals with material properties and theories of stress and strain, and the second part deals with common topics of structural mechanics. It provides a thorough coverage of elasticity and plasticity and due emphasis on design aspects for beams, columns, shafts, springs, etc.
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| 9."Strength of Materials" by Rajput R K
“Strength of Materials” Book Review: This book provides a detailed overview on strength of materials. It covers chapters like simple stresses and strains, principal stresses, and strains, centroid and moment of inertia, bending moments and shearing forces, bending stresses in beams, combined direct and bending stresses, shearing stresses. It also covers deflection of beams, fixed and continuous beams, thin shells, riveted and welded joints, thick shells, torsion of circular and non-circular shafts. It contains numerous solved and unsolved examples with detailed explanation. It is designed focusing on students and teachers of various fields of engineering and science.
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| 10."Strength of Material: S.I. Units" by S Ramamrutham
“Strength of Material: S.I. Units” Book Review: This book provides a comprehensive overview on strength of material. It is designed to focus on students and teachers of various engineering fields like chemical, civil, mechanical, and more. It introduces the study of the strength of materials and discusses the different types of stresses and strains acting on an object. The book focuses on other concepts like Thermal Stresses, Strain Energy and Impact Loading, Principal Stresses and Strains, Elastic Constants, Moment of Inertia, Bending Stresses, Perfect Frames, and Shear Force. It provides numerous solved and unsolved examples to enhance understanding of readers.
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2. Advance Strength of Materials
| 1."Advances in Strength of Materials" by Liviu Marsavina
“Advances in Strength of Materials” Book Review: This book is written for the undergraduate students of civil engineering. It can also be used by civil engineers as a reference. This book is a collection of research papers in the field of advances in strength of materials. It discusses the key engineering materials and the analytical knowledge in this field. It also covers the latest numerical and experimental developments in this field. It reviews the concepts of fatigue and fracture mechanics in detail. This book has included many diagrams and numerical examples. It also has included many real-life case-studies.
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| 2."Thin Films and Coatings: Toughening and Toughness Characterization (Advances in Materials Science and Engineering)" by Sam Zhang
“Thin Films and Coatings: Toughening and Toughness Characterization (Advances in Materials Science and Engineering)” Book Review: This book is written for the undergraduate students of civil engineering. It can also be used by civil engineers as a reference. This book discusses the recent developments in the measurement of toughness and toughening of hard coatings. It covers the concepts of hard ceramic coatings, various toughness evaluation methods and thin coatings. It reviews the toughening process of laser-treated surfaces and porous thin films. It also examines the characteristics of coating adhesion. This book has included many diagrams and numerical examples. It also has included many real-life case-studies.
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| 3."Advances in Fracture and Strength" by Young-Jin Kim and Dong-Ho Bae
“Advances in Fracture and Strength” Book Review: This book is written for the undergraduate students of civil engineering. It can also be used by civil engineers as a reference. This book discusses the recent advances in fractures and strength. It is a collection of research papers from the APCFS’04 held in Korea. It reviews the latest theoretical and computational research on strength and integrity. It also examines the practical and experimental concepts of fracture and reliability of structures. This book has included many diagrams and numerical examples. It also has included many real-life case-studies.
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| 4."Stress Intensity Factors and Weight Functions (Advances in Fracture)" by D Munz and T Fett
“Stress Intensity Factors and Weight Functions (Advances in Fracture)” Book Review: This book is written for the undergraduate students of civil engineering. It can also be used by civil engineers as a reference. This book discusses the weight functions and stress intensity factors. It also describes the methods for the calculation of weight functions. It covers the concepts of mode-I and mode-II loading. It also examines the stress intensity factors for 1-D and 2-D cracks. This book has included many diagrams and numerical examples. It also has included many real-life case-studies.
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| 5."Advances in Research on the Strength and Fracture of Materials" by D M R Taplin
“Advances in Research on the Strength and Fracture of Materials” Book Review: This book is written for the undergraduate students of civil engineering. It can also be used by metallurgists and mechanical engineers as a reference. This book is a collection of research papers in the field of fractures and fatigue with respect to metals and alloys. It discusses the metallographic aspects of fatigue in pearlitic structures. It covers the topics of liquid metal embrittlement, corrosion fatigue and stress corrosion cracking. It also examines the diffusion mechanism of fatigue crack formation. This book has included many diagrams and numerical examples. It also has included many real-life case-studies.
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| 6."Strength of Materials: A Text-Book for Manual Training Schools (Classic Reprint)" by imusti
“Strength of Materials: A Text-Book for Manual Training Schools (Classic Reprint)” Book Review: This book is written for the undergraduate students of civil engineering. It can also be used by civil engineers as a reference. This book presents the manufacturing process and general properties of materials. This book discusses the weight functions and stress intensity factors. It covers the concepts of hard ceramic coatings, various toughness evaluation methods and thin coatings. It reviews the concepts of fatigue and fracture mechanics in detail. This book has included many diagrams and numerical examples. It also has included many real-life case-studies.
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| 7."Strength of Materials" by B C Punmia and Ashok Kumar Jain
“Strength of Materials” Book Review: This book is written for the undergraduate students of civil engineering. It can also be used by civil engineers as a reference. This book discusses the recent advances in the strength of materials. It examines the adhesions of substrate/film interface and its strength. It covers the concepts of sliding contact fracture, fracture toughness and resistance to cracking. It reviews the basic concepts of thin films and nanotechnology. This book has included many diagrams and numerical examples. It also has included many real-life case-studies.
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| 8."Schaum's Outline of Strength of Materials" by William A Nash
“Schaum’s Outline of Strength of Materials” Book Review: This book is written for the undergraduate students of civil engineering. It can also be used by civil engineers as a reference. This book covers the topic of strength of materials in detail. It reviews the latest theoretical and computational research on strength and integrity. It also examines the practical and experimental concepts of fracture and reliability of structures. It covers the topics of liquid metal embrittlement, corrosion fatigue and stress corrosion cracking. This book has included many diagrams and numerical examples. It also has included many real-life case-studies.
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| 9."A Textbook of Strength of Materials" by R K Bansal
“A Textbook of Strength of Materials” Book Review: This book is written for the undergraduate students of civil engineering. It can also be used by civil engineers as a reference. This book reviews the advanced concepts of stress due to rotation in thick and thin cylinders. It also reviews the theories of failures of materials and the bending of curved bars. It discusses the mechanics of solids in great detail. It discusses the principal stresses and strains, buckling of columns and Mohr’s circle. This book has included many diagrams and numerical examples. It also has included many real-life case-studies.
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| 10."Strength of Materials: Elementary Theory and Problems - Vol. I" by S Timoshenko
“Strength of Materials: Elementary Theory and Problems – Vol. I” Book Review: This book is written for the undergraduate students of civil engineering. It can also be used by civil engineers as a reference. This book covers the basic principles of strength of materials. It reviews the fatigue behaviour of macroscopic slag inclusions. It also describes a model for fatigue crack initiation in polycrystalline solids. It reviews the localized plastic deformation and the microstructure of fatigue fractures in titanium. It also examines the fatigue loading of age hardening aluminium alloys. This book has included many diagrams and numerical examples. It also has included many real-life case-studies.
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