Schaum's outline Strength of materials

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• 618 detailed problems, including step-by-step solutions
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• Clear explanations of the strengths of systems subject to dynamic loadings
• Complete programs in FORTRAN for difficult geometries of structural members, with examples, plus simpler programs.

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Contents

1. Tension and Compression
2. Statically Indeterminate Force Systems: Tension and Compression
3. Thin-Walled Pressured Vessels
4. Direct Shear Stresses
5. Torsion
6. Shearing Force and Bending Moment
7. Centroids,
8. Moments of Inertia, and Products of Inertia of Plane Areas
9. Stresses in Beamse Elastic Deflection of Beams: Double-Integration Method
10. Elastic Deflection of Beams: Method of Singularity Functions
11. Statically Indeterminate Elastic Beams
12. Special Topics in Elastic Beam Theory
13. Plastic Deformation of Beams
14. Columns
15. Strain Energy Methods
16. Combined Stresses
17. Members Subject to Combined Loadings; Theories of Failure