Advanced Mechanics of Solids

Lester W. Schmerr, Jr, is Emeritus Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University.

'The book 'Advanced Mechanics of Solids' by Lester W. Schmerr Jr presents a comprehensive, modern, well-thought-out, and concise approach to the analysis of deformable bodies. The book presents both a detailed description of stated problems and a big picture of the mechanics of solids by highlighting basic principles governing deformable bodies. It shows solutions of elementary and advance systems, introduces analytical results and computational methods, and presents classical equilibrium and compatibility equations as well as a work-energy approach. The book is concluded with failure and stability theories. All that packed into six hundred well-written pages. Moreover, many problems are accompanied with Matlab® codes, the standard language of modern engineering computations. I can recommend this book with no hesitation.' Grzegorz Orzechowski, LUT University

• 1. Introduction; 2. Stress; 3. Equilibrium; 4. Strain; 5. Stress-Strain Relations; 6. Governing Equations and Boundary Conditions; 7. Analytical Solutions; 8. Work-Energy Concepts; 9. Computational Mechanics of Deformable Bodies; 10. Unsymmetrical Beam Bending; 11. Uniform and Non-Uniform Torsion; 12. Combined Deformations.