The ultimate resource for designers, engineers, and analyst working with calculations of loads and stress.

    

    The logico-mathematical treatment of the subject is made easy because every concept used is simple and simply explained from first principles. Each renewed explanation of the facts brings the emergence of new knowledge from old material of truly great importance to the clinician and the theorist alike. A highly original book that ought to be read by everyone interested in psychiatry or in Freudian psychology.

    Step-by-step development of results with careful explanation, and lists of important results make it useful as a handbook and a text.

    

    The emphasis remains on establishing an accessible comprehension of fundamentals to facilitate using the method in research and/or to solve practical, existing problems. Contains a balanced treatment of the theory with a wide range of applications and examples from thermofluid mechanics, structures, heat transfer, elasticity and lubrication. This edition is completely updated with new problems and modern computer codes. The sections on fluid mechanics reflect extensive advances in recent years.

    Professor Smith's first paperback hit (with over 100,000 copies sold) has become the mechanic's and engineer's bible.

    More than 20 diagrams and 40 photographs illustrate the text.

    It covers topics from micromechanics and macromechanics to lamination theory and plate bending, buckling, and vibration, clarifying the physical significance of composite materials. In addition to the materials covered in the first edition, this book includes more theory-experiment comparisons and updated information on the design of composite materials.

    All abstract ideas receive a high degree of motivation, and numerous examples illustrate many different fields of mathematics. Abundant problems include hints or answers. 1961 edition.