Engineering Mechanics 1

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   • Dietmar Gross, Werner Hauger, Jörg Schröder, Wolfgang A. Wall, Nimal Rajapakse

   Pages 1-3

3. Basic Concepts

   • Dietmar Gross, Werner Hauger, Jörg Schröder, Wolfgang A. Wall, Nimal Rajapakse

   Pages 5-18

4. Forces with a Common Point of Application

   • Dietmar Gross, Werner Hauger, Jörg Schröder, Wolfgang A. Wall, Nimal Rajapakse

   Pages 19-48

5. General Systems of Forces, Equilibrium of a Rigid Body

   • Dietmar Gross, Werner Hauger, Jörg Schröder, Wolfgang A. Wall, Nimal Rajapakse

   Pages 49-86

6. Center of Gravity, Center of Mass, Centroids

   • Dietmar Gross, Werner Hauger, Jörg Schröder, Wolfgang A. Wall, Nimal Rajapakse

   Pages 87-114

7. Support Reactions

   • Dietmar Gross, Werner Hauger, Jörg Schröder, Wolfgang A. Wall, Nimal Rajapakse

   Pages 115-148

8. Trusses

   • Dietmar Gross, Werner Hauger, Jörg Schröder, Wolfgang A. Wall, Nimal Rajapakse

   Pages 149-168

9. Beams, Frames, Arches

   • Dietmar Gross, Werner Hauger, Jörg Schröder, Wolfgang A. Wall, Nimal Rajapakse

   Pages 169-216

10. Work and Potential Energy

    • Dietmar Gross, Werner Hauger, Jörg Schröder, Wolfgang A. Wall, Nimal Rajapakse

    Pages 217-254

11. Static and Kinetic Friction

    • Dietmar Gross, Werner Hauger, Jörg Schröder, Wolfgang A. Wall, Nimal Rajapakse

    Pages 255-278

12. Back Matter

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Statics is the first volume of a three-volume textbook on Engineering Mechanics. It is the intention of the authors to present to engineering students the basic concepts and principles of mechanics in the clearest and simplest form possible. An important objective of this book is to develop problem solving skills in a systematic manner. The straightforward and flexible approach of the text to the theory of mechanics makes it accessible to students from different disciplines and allows for different educational backgrounds.

Another aim of this book is to provide engineering students as well as practising engineers with a solid foundation to help them bridge the gaps between undergraduate studies, advanced courses on mechanics and practical engineering problems.

Strong evidence that all these objectives have been achieved is the success of the original German version of this textbook series. It is the bestselling textbook for more than two decades and its 10^th edition has just been published.

The book contains numerous examples, along with their complete solutions. Emphasis is placed upon student participation in problem solving. The contents of the book correspond to the topics normally covered in courses on basic engineering mechanics at universities and colleges.

• beams, frames, arches
• design
• engineering mechanics
• equilibrium conditions
• free-body diagram
• law of action and r
• mechanics
• moment of a couple
• moment of a force
• normal force
• rigid body
• stability of equilibrium states
• support reactions
• trusses
• work

From the reviews:

“The book is the first of three volumes on engineering mechanics. It is intended for engineering students of universities and colleges, and contains basic concepts and principles of mechanics/statics in simple and convenient form. Numerous exercises (and their solutions) allow the students to reduce the gap between theoretical models of analytical mechanics and needs of engineering. The content of the volume is traditional.” (Vladimir Evgenievich Puzyrev, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1219, 2011)

• Faculty of Applied Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada

  Nimal Rajapakse

• Inst. Mechanik, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

  Dietmar Gross, Werner Hauger

• Inst. Mechanik, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

  Jörg Schröder

• LS für Numerische Mechanik , TU München, Garching, Germany

  Wolfgang A. Wall

Dietmar Gross received his Engineering Diploma in Applied Mechanics and his Doctor of Engineering degree at the University of Rostock. He was Research Associate at the University of Stuttgart and since 1976 he is Professor of Mechanics at the University of Darmstadt. His research interests are mainly focused on modern solid mechanics on the macro and micro scale, including advanced materials, Werner Hauger studied Applied Mathematics and Mechanics at the University of Karlsruhe and received his Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Northwestern University in Evans-ton. He worked in industry for several years, was a Professor at the Helmut-Schmidt-University in Hamburg and went to the University of Darmstadt in 1978. His research interests are, among others, theory of stability, dynamic plasticity and biomechanics. Jörg Schröder studied Civil Engineering, received his doctoral degree at the University of Hannover and habilitated at the University of Stuttgart. He was Professorof Mechanics at the University of Darmstadt and went to the University of Duisburg-Essen in 2001. His fields of research are theoretical and computer-oriented continuum mechanics, modeling of functional materials as well as the further development of the finite element method. Wolfgang A. Wall studied Civil Engineering at Innsbruck University and received his doctoral degree from the University of Stuttgart. Since 2003 he is Professor of Mechanics at the TU München and Head of the Institute for Computational Mechanics. His research interests cover broad fields in computational mechanics, including both solid and fluid mechanics. His recent focus is on multiphysics and multiscale problems as well as computational biomechanics. Nimal Rajapakse studied Civil Engineering at the University of Sri Lanka and received Doctor of Engineer-ing from the Asian Institute of Technology in 1983. He was Professor of Mechanics and Department Head at the University of Manitoba and at the University of British Colum-bia. He is currently Dean of Applied Sciences at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. His research interests include mechanics of advanced materials and geomechanics.

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