Mechanics of Materials

New to this edition

• Numerous photographs, carefully selected by the authors, have been added to each chapter to allow
• students to visualize important concepts.
• The art program and design is new with figures rendered in an updated style. More illustrations will
• be included to help students visualize the more difficult concepts.
• With over 1600 homework problems, almost every problem has been revised or newly created for maximum
• quality. Approximately 80% of the problems will be completely new, with an emphasis on practicality,
• and approximately 20% of the problems have been revised by changing the data. Design-type problems
• and sample problems have been included when appropriate. The ratio of SI to U.S. Customary Units is
• 5:4.
• An Appendix has been added for students to use to prepare for the Fundamentals of Engineering
• (FE/EIT) exam.
• A brief review of Statics, stressing the use of free-body diagrams, has been added to the
• Introduction to emphasize the basics of engineering mechanics.
• The chapter on columns has been updated in the design of wood columns and now precedes the chapter
• on energy methods.
• The discussion of the behavior of materials in stress-strain tests has been expanded to cover
• materials such as concrete and composites. The coverage of the behavior of fiber-reinforced
• composites has been increased.
• There is a new format for covering shear and bending-moment diagrams, with 2 new chapters to
• consolidate the coverage.
• The discussion of the deflection of beams by the moment-area method has been shortened and is now an
• optional topic.
• Problems designed for computer solution have been added to the end of each chapter.
• A "Method of Problem Solution" section has been added to the Introduction to help students
• strategically select a problem solving methodology.
• A more accessible treatment of the analysis and design of beams is presented earlier in the text.

• The numerous text figures are always places on the same page as the related text or on a facing
• page.
• The well-designed and illustrated Sample Problems, a signature Beer and Johnston feature, allow
• students to see important key problem types with their solution laid out on a single page, and
• organized to provide a model for student problem solving.
• Clear presentation of the analysis of stresses. Since the 1st Edition, Beer and Johnston have
• approached the analysis of stresses in members under various loadings by assuming simplified
• boundary conditions. The the 3rd Edition this approach continues to provide students with a better
• physical understanding of the subject.

• 1 INTRODUCTION--CONCEPT OF STRESS
• 2 STRESS AND STRAIN--AXIAL LOADING
• 3 TORSION
• 4 PURE BENDING
• 5 ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF BEAMS FOR BENDING
• 6 SHEARING STRESSES IN BEAMS AND THIN-WALLED MEMBERS
• 7 TRANSFORMATION OF STRESS AND STRAIN
• 8 PRINCIPAL STRESSES UNDER GIVEN LOADING CONDITIONS
• 9 DEFLECTION OF BEAMS
• 10 COLUMNS
• 11 ENERGY METHODS