Essential Mechanics - Statics and Strength of Materials with MATLAB and Octave

P. Venkataraman

Jan 2020 · Panchapakesan Venkataraman

About this ebook

Essential Mechanics - Statics and Strength of Materials with MATLAB and Octave combines two core engineering science courses - “Statics” and “Strength of Materials” - in mechanical, civil, and aerospace engineering. It weaves together various essential topics from Statics and Strength of Materials to allow discussing structural design from the very beginning. The traditional content of these courses are reordered to make it convenient to cover rigid body equilibrium and extend it to deformable body mechanics.The e-book covers the most useful topics from both courses with computational support through MATLAB/Octave. The traditional approach for engineering content is emphasized and is rigorously supported through graphics and analysis. Prior knowledge of MATLAB is not necessary. Instructions for its use in context is provided and explained. It takes advantage of the numerical, symbolic, and graphical capability of MATLAB for effective problem solving. This computational ability provides a natural procedure for What if? exploration that is important for design. The book also emphasizes graphics to understand, learn, and explore design. The idea for this book, the organization, and the flow of content is original and new. The integration of computation, and the marriage of analytical and computational skills is a new valuable experience provided by this e-book. Most importantly the book is very interactive with respect to the code as it appears along with the analysis.

About the author

Dr. P. Venkataraman is a retired academic with 35 years of undergraduate and graduate teaching. Prior to his academic work he was employed at Hindustan Aeronautics. He did is B.Tech in Aeronautical Engineering from I. I. T. Kanpur in 1974. Hie obtained his PhD from Rice University in 1984. Dr. Venkataraman's research and professional interests included applied optimization, direct and inverse boundary value problem, trajectory shaping in nonlinear dynamic systems, airfoil design, analytical solution for boundary value problems, functional data analysis, and data clustering. All of his research above incorporates the use of Bezier functions to solve mathematical problems. He uses the same curves to create elements of creative design. His profile can be found at: https://sites.google.com/site/venkatpan/