Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain

by Warren Young, Richard Budynas, Ali Sadegh

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071742476

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Book Description

Fully revised throughout, Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain, Eighth Edition, provides accurate and thorough tabulated formulations that can be applied to the stress analysis of a comprehensive range of structural components. All equations and diagrams of structural properties are presented in an easy-to-use, thumb, through format.

This extensively updated edition contains new chapters on fatigue and fracture mechanics, stresses in fasteners and joints, composite materials, and biomechanics. Several chapters have been expanded and new topics have been added. Each chapter now concludes with a summary of tables and formulas for ease of reference. This is the definitive resource for designers, engineers, and analysts who need to calculate stress and strain management.

ROARK'S FORMULAS FOR STRESS AND STRAIN, EIGHTH EDITION, COVERS:

• Behavior of bodies under stress
• Principles and analytical methods
• Numerical and experimental methods
• Tension, compression, shear, and combined stress
• Beams; flexure of straight bars
• Bending of curved beams
• Torsion
• Flat plates
• Columns and other compression members
• Shells of revolution; pressure vessels; pipes
• Bodies in contact undergoing direct bearing and shear stress
• Elastic stability
• Dynamic and temperature stresses
• Stress concentration factors
• Fatigue and fracture mechanics
• Stresses in fasteners and joints
• Composite materials
• Biomechanics

About the Author

Warren Young is professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he was on the faculty for more than 40 years.

Richard G. Budynas is professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology. He is the author of Advanced Strength and Applied Stress Analysis, Second Edition (McGraw-Hill, 1998), and coauthor of Shigley’s Mechanical Engineering Design, Ninth Edition (McGraw-Hill, 2010).

Ali M. Sadegh is professor of mechanical engineering and the founder and director of the Center for Advanced Engineering Design and Development at the City College of the City University of New York. He is a coauthor of Marks’ Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, 11th Edition (McGraw-Hill, 2007).

Customer Reviews

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Perform structural calculations for underground precast concrete vaults subject to truck or aircraft live loads and surcharge soil loads. Some vaults have 15 feet of soil load on top of them. This engineer uses chapter 11 in the book flat plates subject to above loads to determine stress in top, sidewalls and bottom slab.

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The material is well presented and more extensive than my earlier editions (4th & 6th). In the few equations that I used, I did find some small differences in the material. It seems more like improvements than correcting errors.

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I would like to see this material set to xls formats. I do this myself for repetitive work.