Mechanics of Solids and Fluids (Mechanical Engineering Series)

This book offers a unified presentation of the concepts and most of the practical principles common to all branches of solid and fluid mechanics. Its design should be appealing to advanced undergraduate students in engineering sciences and should also enhance the insight of both graduate students and practitioners. A profound knowledge of applied mechanics as understood in this book may help to meet the needs for necessary versatility which the engineering community has to face in the modern world of high-technology. Although the book grew out of lecture notes for a three-semester course for advanced undergraduate students taught by the author and several colleagues during the past 20 years, it contains sufficient material for a subsequent two-semester graduate course. The only prerequisites are the basic algebra and analysis as usually taught in the first year of an undergraduate engineering curriculum. Advanced mathematics as it is required in the progress of mechanics teaching may be taught in parallel classes, but also an introduction into the art of design should be offered at that stage. The book is divided into thirteen chapters which are arranged in such a way as to preserve a natural sequence of thoughts and reflections. Within the single chapter, however, the presentation is in general done such as to proceed from undergraduate level to the intermediate level and eventually to the graduate level.