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 | | Advanced Strength and Applied Elasticity (3rd Edition) by Ansel C. Ugural, Saul K. Fenster ISBN-10: 9780131375895 ISBN-10: 0-13-137589-X ISBN-13: 9780131375895 ISBN-13: 978-0-13-137589-5 Textbook Binding 1994-09-08 Prentice Hall Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description For aeronautical, civil, and mechanical engineers. State-of-the-art and practical in perspective, this classic exploration of stress analysis focuses on techniques for analysis in realistic settings. Unusually comprehensive, it provides uniquely balanced coverage of mechanics of materials, theory of elasticity methods, and computer-oriented numerical methods-all supported with a broad range of fully worked-out examples. The Fourth Edition adds/expands coverage of mechanics of materials theory; three-dimensional stress and strain transformations; strain energy in common structural members; stress concentration in typical members; elastic-plastic analysis of thick-walled cylinders; application of strain energy and variational methods to beams on elastic foundations, buckling of columns, and plates; a complete new set of illustrative examples and problems-many taken from engineering practice; and tables covering computer programs for principal stresses and area properties, deflection of beams, material properties, and conversion factors. | ||
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terrible. This book is by far the worst textbook I have ever used. The author does not present ideas logically or coherently. Many explanations, despite being unnecessarily wordy, are vague. I had already covered failure criteria (chapter 4) in another class but still found myself confused due to the author's poor writing style -- thankfully, I still had my old notes. If you are a professor looking for a textbook for your class, please DO NOT use this book. I actually purchased another book on elasticity because this one is so awful. | ||
Just AWFUL Engineering has its share of poorly-written books, and this is certainly one of them. Rather than give a clear, concise explanations, the authors instead focus on pointless derivations and other filler material that's of little use to the student. The result is a confusing mess that makes students like myself frustrated and stressed. The problems are only compounded by the lack of examples. To me, in engineering books, examples are just as important as explanations because let's face it, engineering is *not* an abstract art. Its basis is the physical application of scientific theories to real-world problems. Sadly, this book's examples are all too limited in scope, explanation, and depth. The authors will derive equations for multiple sections and then have a single, brief, elementary example (where barely anything is explained and you're forced to become a psychic to determine their line of thought) and then expect you to do the exponentially more difficult problems in the back of each chapter. It's ridiculous. When I first got the book, I thought it was interesting they were able to cram such an involved field into a relatively small book (~500 small-sized pages). Then you realize they were able to do such a feat by skipping over tremendous amounts of vital explanations and examples. Be prepared to be flipping through the book constantly to refer back to formulas in various chapters, and also be prepared to scratch your head staring at terrible illustrations. Equations are also poorly labeled because when you're quickly flipping through the pages, it's quite difficult to see if an equation is one of importance, or simply an intermediate step in a derivation. Good books box their important or foundational equations (which of course means this book does not). What's really sad is that poorly-written books like this one have the capability to turn an otherwise-enthused student off from a topic. Before taking a class where this book was the assigned reading, I was quite interested in advanced stress analysis. Now I look upon the subject with disdain because it seems like a big confusing mess. I gave the book one star for two reasons: first, Amazon doesn't allow 0-star reviews, and second, perhaps the book would be of some use for reference, but as far as a text for learning the material, avoid at all costs! | ||
Please don't write anymore textbooks! Will the authors do the right thing and let this book expire and go out of print? It's sad to see how these authors attempt to create clarity of thought and "magically impress" by creating theories without solid rational arguments...oh wait, there is a name for this. It's called hand waving. It is when someone makes a claim and, instead of actually (rationally) arguing their point, they skip around the issue leaving you breathless in wonderment at how smart they are, or rather nauseous at how they can't come up with a clear logical thought without stealing problems from other textbooks. Anyway, let's just skip to chapter 10 and find out about energy methods, oh wait, there is a reference to a more "mathematically rigorous" way in refs 10.1 through 10.3. Let out a sigh of relief, "ahhhhh".... how easy it is to point to other more useful references than your own work, you silly authors you. Just sit back and enjoy taking in the students dollars from your "classic" textbook. Maybe in the 5th edition, it can be written in binary and encoded so that all readers can enjoy spending time decrypting the message before studying the material, but then again that requires the authors to understand something. Lets give them an award for finding ways to make 2+2 seem like proving the Riemann Hypothesis. | ||
Not a great book on its own. I found myself reviewing the details of other books checked out from the library (Timoshenko 1956, Seely and Smith 1952, Boresi 2003, and Hibbeler 2003) often hidden in this text just to do the exercise. Furthermore, a lot of examples were the same as those from other textbooks but with much less clarity here. The diagrams were often confusing and the details showing the development of the theory were often highly masked or left out completely. On a positive note (if there is actually one), the book will probably be used later for reference, because, after struggling through the minute details and solving the problems posed here, I have a better understanding of the principles, but definitely NOT because of this book or the professor who used it almost exclusively to teach the course! | ||
great book, great price, fast shipping As the title says. I found a very good deal. The shipping was fast. I got it here in Canada within a week, and the cost with shipping and handling was cheaper than the Canadian local price. I'm impressed. | ||