Solid Mechanics

RAY HULSE is Associate Dean of the School of Science and the Environment at Coventry University. A Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and an experienced teacher and writer, he has co-authored several other textbooks, including Structural Mechanics, Second Edition (Palgrave, 2000) with Jack Cain and Reinforced Concrete Design, Fifth Edition (Macmillan Press, 1999) with W.H.Mosley and J.H.Bungey. KEITH SHERWIN was formerly Course Tutor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Huddersfield. He has also taught in Egypt and Singapore and is the author of several textbooks, including Foundations of Mechanical Engineering (Nelson Thornes, 1996). JACK CAIN was formerly Senior Course Tutor in the department of Civil Engineering at Coventry University. He has many years of industrial and teaching experience and is the co-author of Structural Mechanics, Second Edition (Palgrave, 2000).