Book Summary of Engineering Mechanics: Statics
Focusing on the conceptual understanding of mechanics, this exciting new text addresses developments in the methods of analyzing mechanics problems. It fully incorporates the highly sophisticated computational software packages currently available to students. The text provides transition material to higher level courses, as well as a wealth of problems to foster understanding.
Key Features
• The basic concepts of centroids, second moments of area and internal forces have been introduced.
• The text presents a comprehensive introduction of Statics with emphasis on forces, moments, and equilibrium and modeling
• Homework problems are marked in such a manner that the instructor and student will know if a particular problem can and in some cases must be solved with the aid of software or if it could be easily solved “by hand.
Table Of Contents
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Vector Analysis
• 3. Particle Equilibrium
• 4. Rigid Bodies: Equivalent Force Systems
• 5. Distributed Forces: Centroids and Center of Gravity
• 6. Equilibrium of Rigid Bodies
• 7. Analysis of Structures
• 8. Internal Forces in Structural Members
• 9. Moments of Inertia
• 10. Friction
• 11. Virtual Work
• Appendix A: Solution of Systems of Linear Equations
• Answers to Selected Problems
• Index
