 An excellent dummy-book giving the basic info on the subject, exceptionally helpful and clear. It is indeed the readers' ticket to the world of mechanics of materials which is considered the foundation of all mechanical sciences, having the roots in math and physics. The scope of the book tracks a typical under-graduate course, providing readers with a very thorough introduction.
The readers will get the easy-to-understand explanations, covering the major principles of equilibrium, behavior of materials, geometric compatibility as well as the relation of the stress to the acting forces and movement, fatigue and fracture mechanics, different modes of failure, and many other aspects. The students using this book will be able to do much better on their tests and homework. The content of the book is a very easy reading for any technical class. The book will be very practical and useful for the people willing to understand what exactly they are reading. The readers will get a very quick refresher on the general knowledge as well as a review of the essential topics of statics; they would also sharpen their technical skills.
They will understand all key concepts of mechanics, know how to determinate the problems of statics and grasp the main principles of the strain and stress, deformations and also their interactions. Must have publication for every student and enthusiast of materials' mechanics.
 This perfect volume provides wealth of useful information and data for the engineers in any fields. The author included the numerous data tables and charts, informative diagrams and formulas, as well as the problems supplemented with the solutions, to enable the engineers feel more confident when dealing with the design and developments of the products, conducting the evaluation and analysis, operation activities etc.
The content of the book can easily be applied to the huge variety of the engineering problems, including but not limited to the mechanical and marine engineering, electrical engineering and electronics, metallurgy and many other important areas. As you can see, literally all engineering fields have been covered in the pages of this volume, which shall be used as a comprehensive and easily applied working tool for the modern engineer.
Spanning all of engineering, the book can be treated as a sort of summary useful to any typical engineer. We would definitely recommend this one to be used as a readily available reference manual rather than a handbook for the future engineers; it is good to open it and recheck the things you studied in the past, to refresh your knowledge.
 The new edition of the extremely popular publication released to continue the success of the previous editions. William Callister and David Rethwich, the authors of this title, continue to promote the students' good technical understanding of the three main types of materials, namely metals, polymers and ceramics plus the composite materials, together with the relationship existing between the properties of those materials and their structural elements.
The present release has been supported by a completely redesigned version of VMSE, standing for the virtual materials science & engineering. According to the numerous reviews, the volume is truly great at explaining things and very useful one for the materials engineers who will find all necessary general details of any material. It will be very helpful for the students as well as for the practicing engineers and other professionals willing to have some refresh on the fundamental ideas.
The content of the book is covering everything they will want to know and understand for the basics of mechanical engineering and material science. The explanations are all clear and supplementary materials are very useful. As the title of the book explains, it shall mostly be considered as an introduction to the material science course with the content being solid and perfectly arranged.
 This book is an excellent leader for the teaching of all aspects of solid mechanics. It has already been well met by thousands of readers all around the world. The content of the volume provides students of mechanics of materials with a truly precise presentation of the topics; the text has been illustrated with many live engineering examples easy to understand for the students and relating to both theory and application.
The methodology of presenting the material used by the author gives readers a good opportunity to succeed in studying. The book is filled with detailed examples and homework problems to make students confident. The readers will be able to learn quite well straight from this work. The data diagrams contained in the publication are very clear and understandable. According to the numerous customer reviews, this publication is there among the most helpful ones available today. The text has been mainly based on the understanding of the several fundamental concepts and use of the simplified models.
Such approach has made it possible to develop all required formulas in a very logical and rational way, clearly indicating all conditions under which they could be applied to the design and analysis of different engineering structures and components of the machines. The authors have also used many informative "picture equations" to assist readers...
 This resource is intended to cover literally all important areas of interest for the students as well as for the practicing engineers. The content of the volume is featuring the works by the recognized authors from all over the planet contributing their valuable practical experience together with the technical support for the globally working engineers in finding effective solutions for the mechanical engineering problems of today.
Each of the subjects has been discussed in detail and supported by many informative figures and data tables. For convenience of the readers, the book has been structured into three main parts, covering the fundamentals of the mechanical engineering, possible applications and complementary materials. The handbook has already been found to be unique and truly indispensable source of information being of a particular use for the materials engineers in demonstrating the existing cross-links to all key topics of the mechanical engineering.
This excellent and massive title has been compiled on the basis of the contributions from almost hundred experts. It encompasses all disciplines of the mechanical engineering and up-to-date references to the approved data. The book was specifically designed to serve as a desk-book for every person involved in engineering, providing the basic building blocks of this discipline...
 This is a very useful collection of the real lectures on classical mechanics taught by John Baez from the Louisiana State University. All lectures that have been included in this publication have been presented in four groups. The first group addresses Newtonian and Lagrangian approaches and give some historical background of the Langrangian approach.
The lectures that are there in the second group address the equations of motion, including the Euler-Lagrange equations, and also provide the correct interpretations of terms. In the third group there are lectures relating to the Noether's and Langrangian theorem, covering the time translation, symmetry and conserved quantities, relativistic particle and electrodynamics, alternative Lagrangians, the principle of the least action and geodesics; the lectures are supplemented with several example problems.
The final group is titled "from Lagrangians to Hamiltonians" and it is dealing with the Hamiltonian approach and equations, Hamilton-Jacobi equations, plus the regular/strongly regular Lagrangians. The classical mechanics itself presents a peculiar area of physics. For many years it as treated as the total of people's theoretical knowledge of the physical universe, but today it is considered an idealization...
 Analysis and modeling of the various dynamical system is a truly popular practice because the engineers must always have a proper understanding of how the engineering or physical systems would behave under particular circumstances. The content of this volume will be providing readers with the comprehensive and well-organized technical introduction to the established methods plus techniques that are commonly utilized for the translation of the physical problems into the math language, with both linear and non-linear systems being covered.
The publication has been deservedly treated as very practical because of the materials contained and numerous solved examples and summaries. The volume is covering virtually all aspects of the analysis/modeling of the dynamical systems, including the introduction to the Hamiltonian, Lagrangian, Bond Graph and Newtonian methodologies and illustration of the effective application of the differential equations to a broad range of mechanical and electrical, as well as other systems.
The authors have also set the most important features of the dynamics of the non-linear systems together with the establishing of the effective methodologies for the formulation of the discrete-time models. The publication will definitely be of great use for the students in various field of engineering and to the practicing engineers and researchers.
 The present publication deals with the formulating of the various model-based rules of design for the proper conception of both adaptronic/mechatronic systems; it is addressing the comparison of actuator classes for the particular real-life applications and is also offering correct answers to the FAQs.
The readers will definitely get the due understanding of all relationships there between the geometry of the actuator and quantities of the primary outputs, how scalable could be the actuators that are basing on the same principle, how are the output quantities that are relating to the geometry and to mechanical load, etc.
The active mechanical systems, including structures and mechanisms, it is increasingly important to consider the coupling between passive/active elements of the mechanical systems at the earliest possible stages of the design.
That is the reason why it is considered really necessary to establish the reliable models of performance of the actuators as functions of the key design parameters/variables for integration of the actuators in the preliminary procedures and using the optimization approach. This publication is expected to be very useful to all professionals of the industry, for example designers of actuators and machines.
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