Stress Analysis Text Book
Stress Analysis Text Book
(OP)
Hi ya all,
Just wondering if any one could help with a very good stress analysis text book that covers in detail analytical stress analysis techniques as well as some basic FEA. I currently have T.G Megson's book but just wanted to know if there are other books much better than megson's book.
Many thanks.
Just wondering if any one could help with a very good stress analysis text book that covers in detail analytical stress analysis techniques as well as some basic FEA. I currently have T.G Megson's book but just wanted to know if there are other books much better than megson's book.
Many thanks.





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Never really rated Megsons book though.
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Cheers
Greg Locock
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As GregLocock says, start with Timoshenko. You should have Timoshenko & Goodier: Theory of Elasticity. The other classics are Timoshenko and Gere: "Theory of Elastic Stability", and Timoshenko and Woinowsky-Krieger:"Theory of Plates and Shells".
Another good book on practical stress analysis is "Practical Stress Analysis in Engineering Design" (Alexander Blake). This is available through Amazon.
For fracture mechanics a very good book on nitty gritty issues is "The Practical Use of Fracture Mechanics" by David Broek. Fairly expensive but softbound edition is available (still quite expensive, but worth it).
I have used all these books and can recommend them all.
Regards
Andries
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Niu "Airframe Structural Design" and "Airframe Stress Analysis"
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Regards.
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Timoshenko is good but I feel is becoming outdated especially with FEA really something that was beyond his time.
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Dont get me wrong I think Timoshenko's books are outstanding.
But which of his books are you referring too?
Ive got Strength of Materials
and Theory of structures
Could it be His Theory of Elasticity?
Cheers!
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S. Timosehnko, Strength of Material, Part 1 and Part 2, Elementary Theory and Problems, 3rd Edition
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It covers fundamentals stress and strain problems, but where is anything on FEM ? Timoshenko in 1965 in Theory of Structures introduced matrix methods in structural analysis and inverted a 6 x 6 matrix using a mainfraim computer!
Really its nowhere near what the Op is after.
If anything I would recommend Popov, Engineering Mechanics of Solids.
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I remember in the first lecture of my "Structural Mechanics 101" course at uni - we had a lecturer with a very dry sense of humour. He told us about the great Irish theoretician, Tim O'Shenko, and as our first assignment, we had to do some library research to write a report on his life's works. Not many of us scored full marks for that one (back in the days before the Internet and Google)!
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As for being Irish your lecturer put a good one on you guys ! Was it 1st April ?
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I think some good books are Dym and Shames - Solid Mechanics a Variational approach,
Filonenko- Borodich - Theory of Elasticity.
Another excelent book is " AIRFRAME - Stress Analysis and Sising" by Michael C. Y. Niu.
This last one is very good
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