Statics: Engineering Mechanics

by Anthony M. Bedford, Wallace L. Fowler

This work and its companion, Dynamics, deliver a consistent problem-solving methodology for statics and present a precise and accurate treatment of the fundamentals of dynamics. Features include: real world applications; chapter openers illustrating an application of the ideas in the chapter; and the use of visualization techniques which isolate the figures which should be studied.

Genres: Textbooks

608 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1995

Reviews

[Adam Chandler]

First year engineering textbook which deals with 2D systems and some 3D systems to calculate stresses and reactionary forces.

[TK]

This is a great book as an introduction to statics or, as I'm reading it this time, to bring yourself back up to speed on the subject. The really good parts of the book are its chapter structure and well written explanations of the theory. The chapter structure is effectively a bit of theory immediately followed by detailed examples. This sounds simple but many textbooks introduce a lot of little bits of theory followed by few examples, sometime with sparse details, and I find this makes learning a lot more difficult on those points you are finding a little bit harder to understand. Even though the examples are detailed and the theory is well written, the book is not verbose and on this 'review' reading I got through the entire book very quickly.