About this ebook
The book is organized to present a thorough treatment of stress analysis first. This treatment of basic principles is followed by appropriate application of analysis techniques and design approaches to trusses and cables, torsion in circular shaft, deflection of beams, buckling of straight columns and struts, and analysis of thick- and thin-walled cylinders under internal and external pressure.
The book features clear explanations, a wealth of excellent worked-out examples of practical applications, and challenging problems.
The book is intended for the undergraduate students of civil, mechanical, electrical, chemical, aeronautical, and production and industrial engineering.
Key Features
• Provides a large number of worked-out examples to help students comprehend the concepts with ease.
• Gives chapter-end review questions to test students’ understanding of the subject.
• Includes chapter-end numerical problems to enhance the problem-solving ability of students. Many of the problems depict realistic situations encountered in engineering practice.
• Incorporates objective type questions to help students assess their overall mastery of the subject.
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About the author
P. N. Chandramouli, Ph.D., is Professor of Civil Engineering at the National Institute of Engineering, Mysore. He obtained his M.E. from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1995 and Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee in 2009. He has over twenty-six years of teaching and research experience.
Professor Chandramouli is a member of the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE). He has to his credit several research papers published in national and international journals. He has also authored two other books: one on Fluid Mechanics and Machinery (published by Oxford University Press) and the other on Engineering Mechanics (published by PHI Learning).
