Engineering Mechanics for Structures (Dover Civil and Mechanical Engineering) by Louis L. Bucciarelli (PDF)

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This text explores the mechanics of solids and statics as well as the strength of materials and elasticity theory. In addition to introducing the fundamentals of structural analysis, it combines and applies important concepts in engineering mechanics. Its many design exercises encourage creative student initiative and systems thinking.Static equilibrium, force resultants, support conditions, and analysis of determinate planar structures — including beams, trusses, and frames — are among the topics, along with stresses and strains in structural elements, and states of stress such as shear, bending, and torsion. Additional subjects include statically indeterminate systems, displacements and deformations, an introduction to matrix methods, elastic stability, and approximate methods. Suitable for undergraduate and graduate students of civil engineering and engineering mechanics, this text is also relevant to students of architecture. The author trains students to “see the world from the perspective of an engineer responsible for making certain that the structure doesn’t fail, that the mechanism doesn’t make too much noise, that the bridge doesn’t sway in the wind, that the latch latches firmly, or that the landing gear do not collapse upon touchdown.”

User’s Reviews

Editorial Reviews: About the Author Louis L. Bucciarelli is a Professor of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐I am a little disappointed with this book, because I thought that it was a college textbook. I guess it still is a college textbook, but it is written as a helpful guide to the classroom textbook in helping a student understand the “engineering language” in a more layman’s type of description.This is most suitable to a student that doesn’t know much about engineering. If you are mechanically inclined or have studied physics in high school then perhaps you may already understand most of this terminology.

⭐This book is an excellent self-study guide to basic structural engineering. Understanding the material between these two covers is sufficient to pass the Professional Engineering Exam on either Civil or Mechanical Engineering. Keeps an interesting subject interesting with excellent qualitative physical descriptions of the physics at play in addition to laying out quantitative analytical techniques. A needed update from those other MIT classics of 1950: Den Hartog’s “Mechanics” and “Strength of Materials”.

⭐Great little book from MIT course which makes you think about a problem. This is the first CE course and it covers a lot of area in an MIT manner. Worth the read for anyone. I got this for grandson who wants to be a CE.

⭐Good book to re-shine and revise mechanics. I bought this book to help remember my mechanics from undergraduate classes. Worked very well for me. Highly recommended this. Arrived on time.

⭐Excellent for studying and to explain to non-engineers how mechanics does affect structure construction. Very simple and bright explanations!

⭐A good book¹

⭐The book is not a rigorous treatment of the subject, but it does give a good intuitive approach to the general ideas of engineering mechanics for structures. The chapter on Indeterminate Systems is particularly good. Helps if you have some background in linear algebra. The author is conversational and throws in some humor.

⭐This book is an abridged form of the lecture notes MIT OCW and is a good self-study guide to the basics of solid mechanics. It has excellent qualitative physical descriptions of the physics and keeps the subject interesting. Other two MIT classics of 1950: Den Hartog’s “Mechanics” and “Strength of Materials” also require some update.

⭐Costly

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