- Hardcover: 832 pages
- Publisher: Nelson Engineering; 4th Revised edition edition (22 Nov 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0534934293
- ISBN-13: 978-0534934293
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 20.6 x 5.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 654,891 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This volume emphasizes the fundamental concepts and applications of strength of materials while developing students' analytical and problem solving skills. This edition has been revised to include more teaching detail in the text, explanations and worked examples, a more natural and logical topic sequence, improved illustrations, and enhanced problem sets.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book is the bees-knees. It is pure algebra throughout and the way the thoery is presented is superb. There is very little modern-math, everything is shown using trig or calculus. Essential book for Moment-Area and deflection theory. If you need a structures text-book, get this one. Timoshenko's 'Plates and Shells' was scary: this book is not. It's timeless and will be read for years and years.
8 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
As a reference material, this book is very good. Gere and Timoshenko do a nice job explaining nearly everything structure-related. However, their use of exercises leaves an immense amount to be desired. They use vocabulary, diagramming techniques, and problem categories that they never explain in the text. It doesn't help that the example problems following each chapter are highly inadequate as examples. They are far too simplified.
As a student's textbook, this is terrible. As a practicing engineer's reference book, it is fantastic. Make your purchase according to your needs.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Excellent for beginning students
30 Jan 2002
Format:Hardcover
I guess I can see some criticism from a mechanical enineers point of view for lack of fatigue failure analysis. But this book is mainly written for the beginning undergraduate for stress and strain analyis. It is by far one of the handiest and most well written books on the subject that I have come across. If you want fatigue life buy a Shigley book. If you want the basic understanding, Timoshenko is wonderful.
21 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Beams, Beams, and more Beams
17 July 2000
Format:Hardcover
I know that this is considered THE mechanics of materials textbook. And paging through it, you can see that the text and figures are very well done, with every effort made to make the material clearly accessible. So in this respect, the book shines. My main objection with this text is its content. Every imaginable method of beam analysis is presented, and the tendency is to treat every stress problem as some sort of beam. Thus if you're a civil engineer designing beams, you'll probably like this book. But if you are a mechanical engineer, responsible for designing mating parts with complex geometries, you'll be sorrily disappointed. Mechanical parts in the real world are not prismatic beams, perfect cylinders, and other utopian forms. They have threads, fillets, holes and other discontinuities that produce stress concentrations -- stress concentrations that have devastating effects in fatigue if not properly accounted for. I know that some will say "Hey, if you want fatigue analysis, get a Machine Design text". But come on, let's be realistic. Many undergrad students will never go on to take such a course, and the fact that well over 90% of real world failures are fatigue failures necessitates that more than 10 pages out of 900 be dedicated to this subject. Also, there is little if any coverage on 3-dimensional stress, plate and shell theory, plasticity, tensors, and a ton of other stuff that is not overly complex, but is used everywhere in the real world. I don't care how "elementary" the book claims to be. If it's over 900 pages, it should cover these important topics. Maybe someday we'll have more practicing engineers writing textbooks -- textbooks that treat real life problems, rather than fictional, academic idealizations.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
The Best Fundamental Mechanics Book You Can Buy
13 Dec 2008
Format:Hardcover
Have used this book as a resource for many classes. All of my professors said this is "The Book" for basic Mechanics, and I would agree with them.
Granted, Fatigue, Failure are Buckling analysis are fairly limited. Other advanced topics such as vibrations, FEM and plate theory are not covered. That's because this is a fundamental text, but don't let that fool you. The depth covered and the clarity of presentation is amazing for a Mechanics textbook.
If your looking for more complex analysis, get one of Timoshenko's books (the father of modern mechanics). Really, this book is primarily Timoshenko's work, Gere helps make it understandable. For the FEM, a good book is a difficult find.
This is the best selling Mechanics book for a reason. There has only been minor changes since the original Timoshenko-Gere 1972 version. If your professor does not use this book, he has not been teaching long enough.
Granted, Fatigue, Failure are Buckling analysis are fairly limited. Other advanced topics such as vibrations, FEM and plate theory are not covered. That's because this is a fundamental text, but don't let that fool you. The depth covered and the clarity of presentation is amazing for a Mechanics textbook.
If your looking for more complex analysis, get one of Timoshenko's books (the father of modern mechanics). Really, this book is primarily Timoshenko's work, Gere helps make it understandable. For the FEM, a good book is a difficult find.
This is the best selling Mechanics book for a reason. There has only been minor changes since the original Timoshenko-Gere 1972 version. If your professor does not use this book, he has not been teaching long enough.
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