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This superb text offers advanced undergraduates and graduate students a work of intermediate difficulty that features numerous problems with complete answers. It explores torsion, rotating disks, membrane stresses in shells, bending of flat plates, beams on elastic foundation, 2-dimensional theory of elasticity, the energy methods, and buckling. 1952 edition.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface
• Notation
• Chapter I Torsion
• 1 Non-circular Prisms
• 2 Saint-Venant's Theory
• 3 Prandtl's Membrane Analogy
• 4 Kelvin's Fluid-flow Analogy
• 5 Hollow Sections
• 6 Warping of the Cross Sections
• 7 Round Shafts of Variable Diameter
• 8 Jacobsen's Electrical Analogy
• Chapter II Rotating Disks
• 9 Flat Disks
• 10 Disks of Variable Thickness
• 11 Disks of Uniform Stress
• Chapter III Membrane Stresses In Shells
• 12 General Theory
• 13 Applications
• 14 Shells of Uniform Strength
• 15 Non-symmetrical Loading
• Chapter IV Bending Of Flat Plates
• 16 General Theory
• 17 Simple Solutions; Saint-Venant's Principle
• 18 Circular Plates
• 19 Catalogue of Results
• 20 Large Deflections
• Chapter V Beams On Elastic Foundation
• 21 General Theory
• 22 The Infinite Beam
• 23 Semi-infinite Beams
• 24 Finite Beams
• 25 Applications; Cylindrical Shells
• Chapter VI Two-Dimensional Theory Of Elasticity
• 26 The Airy Stress Function
• 27 Applications to Polynomials in Rectangular Coordinates
• 28 Polar Coordinates
• 29 "Kirsch, Boussinesq, and Michell"
• 30 Plasticity
• Chapter VII The Energy Method
• 31 The Three Energy Thereoms
• 32 Examples on Least Work
• 33 Proofs of the Theorems
• 34 Bending of Thin-walled Curved Tubes
• 35 Flat Plates in Bending
• Chapter VIII Buckling
• 36 Rayleigh's Method
• 37 Coil Springs; Beams on Elastic Foundation
• 38 Proof of Rayleigh's Theorem
• 39 Vianello's or Stodola's Method
• 40 "Rings, Boiler Tubes, and Arches"
• 41 Twist-bend Buckling of Beams
• 42 Buckling of Shafts by Torsion
• 43 Twist Buckling of Columns
• 44 Thin Flat Plates
• Chapter IX Miscellaneous Topics
• 45 Mohr's Circle for Three Dimensions
• 46 Torsion of Pretwisted Thin-walled Sections
• 47 The Theorems of Biezeno and Spielvogel
• Problems
• Answers to Problems
• Index

Author notes provided by Syndetics

J. P. Den Hartog: The Reprint EngineerJ. P. Den Hartog (1901-1989), who taught for most of his career at MIT, was one of the founders of the Dover reprint program in engineering. As the author of several books that Dover reprinted and still has in print, and as an advisor from the 1950s until just a few years before his death in 1989, Professor Den Hartog gave invaluable advice concerning books of lasting interest and importance in his field. Not many books in engineering have a productive shelf life spanning several decades. Among the exceptions are these four books of Professor Den Hartog, which Dover reprinted and occasionally revised in later printings from 1961 through 1987: Mechanics, 1961, Strength of Materials, 1961, Mechanical Vibrations, 1985, and Advanced Strength of Materials, 1987. Still widely read and cited by authors in these areas, Den Hartog's books are a tribute to his gift for exposition and clarity. The J. P. Den Hartog Award, established in 1987, is presented in recognition of lifetime contributions to the teaching and practice of vibration engineering.