Strength of Materials and Structures

PrefacePrincipal NotationNote on SI Units1 Tension and Compression: Direct Stresses 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Stretching of a Steel Wire 1.3 Tensile and Compressive Stresses 1.4 Tensile and Compressive Strains 1.5 Stress-Strain Curves for Brittle Materials 1.6 Ductile Materials 1.7 Proof Stresses 1.8 Working Stresses 1.9 Load Factors 1.10 Lateral Strains Due to Direct Stresses 1.11 Strength Properties of Some Engineering Materials 1.12 Weight and Stiffness Economy of Materials 1.13 Strain Energy and Work Done in the Tensile Test 1.14 Initial Stresses 1.15 Composite Bars in Tension or Compression 1.16 Temperature Stresses 1.17 Temperature stresses in Composite Bars 1.18 Circular Ring Under Radial Pressure 1.19 Creep of Materials Under Sustained Stresses 1.20 Fatigue Under Repeated Stresses2 Pin-Jointed Frames 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Statically Determinate Pin-Jointed Frames 2.3 Displacements of Statically Determinate Frames 2.4 Frames with Non-Linear Members 2.5 Statically Indeterminate Problems3 Shearing Stresses 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Measurement of Shearing Stress 3.3 Complementary Shearing Stresses 3.4 Shearing Strain 3.5 Strain Energy Due to Shearing Actions4 Joints and Connections 4.1 Importance of Connections 4.2 Modes of Failure of Simple and Riveted Joints 4.3 Efficiency of a Connection 4.4 Group-Bolted and -Riveted Joints 4.5 Eccentric Loading of Bolted and Riveted Connections 4.6 Welded Connections 4.7 Welded Connections Under Bending Actions5 Analysis of Stress and Strain 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Shearing Stresses in a Tensile Test-Specimen 5.3 Strain Figures in Mild Steel; Lüder's Lines 5.4 Failure of Materials in Compression 5.5 General Two-Dimensional Stress System 5.6 Stresses on an Inclined Plane 5.7 Values of the Principal Stresses 5.8 Maximum Shearing Stress 5.9 Mohr's Circle of Stress 5.10 Strains in an Inclined Direction 5.11 Mohr's Circle of Strain 5.12 Elastic Stress-Strain Relations 5.13 Principal Stresses and Strains 5.14 Relation Between E, G, and v 5.15 Strain 'Rosettes' 5.16 Strain Energy for a Two-Dimensional Stress System 5.17 Three-Dimensional Stress Systems 5.18 Volumetric Strain in a Material Under Hydrostatic Pressure 5.19 Strain Energy of Distortion 5.20 Yielding of Ductile Materials Under Combined Stresses 5.21 Elastic Breakdown and Failure of Brittle Materials6 Thin Shells Under Internal Pressure 6.1 Thin Cylindrical Shell of Circular Cross-Section 6.2 Thin Spherical Shell 6.3 Cylindrical Shell with Hemispherical Ends7 Bending Moments and Shearing Forces 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Concentrated and Distributed Loads 7.3 Relation Between the Intensity of Loading, the Shearing Force, and Bending Moment in a Straight Beam 7.4 Sign Conventions for Bending Moments and Shearing Forces 7.5 Cantilevers 7.6 Cantilever with Non-Uniformly Distributed Load 7.7 Simply-Supported Beams 7.8 Simply-Supported Beam Carrying a Uniformly Distributed Load and End Couples 7.9 Points of Inflection 7.10 Simply-Supported Beam with a Uniformly Distributed Load Over Part of the Span 7.11 Simply-Supported Beam with Non-Uniformly Distributed Load 7.12 A Graphical Method of Drawing Bending Moment Diagrams 7.13 Plane Curved Beams 7.14 More General Case of Bending of a Curved Bar8 Bending Moments and Shearing Forces Due to Slowly Moving Loads 8.1 Introduction 8.2 A Single Concentrated Load Traversing a Beam 8.3 Uniformly Distributed Load of Sufficient Length to Cover the Whole Span 8.4 Two Concentrated Loads Traversing a Beam 8.5 Several Concentrated Loads 8.6 Influence Lines of Bending Moment and Shearing Force9 Longitudinal Stresses in Beams 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Pure Bending of a Rectangular Beam 9.