Mechanics of Materials: With Applications in Excel

This text covers the fundamentals of the mechanics of materials--or strength of materials--in a clear and easily understandable way, incorporating numerous examples, homework problems, and review problems to ensure comprehension. It also instills practical skills for developing Microsoft^(R) Excel^(R) applications to solve mechanics of materials problems using numerical techniques. The book includes editable Excel spreadsheets representing all the examples featured in the text, PowerPoint^(R) lecture slides, multimedia simulations, graphics files, and a solutions manual with qualifying course adoption.