Applied Mechanics of Solids

Concise and broad, this book covers analyzing deformation, stress, and failure in materials or components. The author elucidates the physical and mathematical laws that govern deformation in solids, the modern constitutive equations, important analytical techniques, and solutions to important boundary and initial value problems in solid mechanics. The book introduces commercial finite element software for stress analysis and discusses the implementation of the finite element method. 400 practice problems and sample finite element programs are included on a companion website http://solidmechanics.org.