This second edition is an introductory book on the subject of Mechanics of Materials with a focus on integrating the basics of Finite Element Analysis. Mechanics of Materials: Basics and Finite Elements, Second Edition provides the basis for understanding and analyzing structural mechanics in engineering systems such as buildings, bridges, vehicles, and machines.

This new edition incorporates the fundamentals of the subject into analytical methods, modeling approaches, numerical methods, experimental procedures, numerical evaluation procedures, and design techniques, with addition of finite element methods. It introduces the fundamentals and then moves on to more advanced concepts and applications. It discusses analytical methods using simple mathematics, examples, and experimental techniques, and it includes a large number of worked examples and case studies that illustrate practical and real-world usage.

Mechanics of Materials: Basics an Finite Elements, Second Edition serves as both a textbook and a reference book for engineering students and practicing professionals.

Numerous figures, PowerPoint lecture presentations, and a valuable solutions manual are available for instructors.

About the Author

Clarence W. de Silva, Fellow ASME, Fellow IEEE, Fellow Canadian Academy of Engineering, Fellow Royal Society of Canada, is a Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He has occupied the following chair professorships:

Senior Canada Research Chair Professorship in Mechatronics and Industrial Automation
NSERC-BC Packers Research Chair in Industrial Automation
Mobil Endowed Chair Professorship

He has served as a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University (1978–1987) and as a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge (1987–1988).

He has earned Ph.D. degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1978) and the University of Cambridge, England (1998), the Higher Doctorate, Sc.D., from the University of Cambridge (2020), and an honorary D.Eng. degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada (2008).

Other Fellowships: Lilly Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University; NASA-ASEE Fellow; Senior Fulbright Fellow at Cambridge University; Fellow of the Advanced Systems Institute of British Columbia; Killam Fellow; Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand; Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne; and Peter Wall Scholar at the University of British Columbia.

Awards: Paynter Outstanding Investigator Award and Takahashi Education Award, ASME Dynamic Systems & Control Division; Killam Research Prize; Outstanding Engineering Educator Award, IEEE Canada; Lifetime Achievement Award, World Automation Congress; IEEE Third Millennium Medal; Meritorious Achievement Award, Association of Professional Engineers of BC; and Outstanding Contribution Award, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. Also, he has made 48 keynote addresses at international conferences.

Editorial Duties: Served on journals, including IEEE Trans. Control System Technology, Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, Trans. ASME; IEEE ASME Trans. Mechatronics; Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Mechatronic Systems and Control; Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Control and Intelligent Systems; Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems; Senior Technical Editor, Measurements and Control; and Regional Editor, North America, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence― IFAC International Journal.

Publications: 26 technical books, 19 edited books, 51 book chapters, over 300 journal articles, and a similar number of conference papers.

Recent Books: Modeling of Dynamic Systems―With Engineering Applications, Second Edition; Sensor Systems (Taylor & Francis/CRC Press, 2017); Sensors and Actuators: Engineering System Instrumentation (2nd Ed., Taylor & Francis/CRC Press, 2016); Mechanics of Materials (Taylor & Francis/CRC Press, 2014); Mechatronics: A Foundation Course (Taylor & Francis/ CRC, 2010); Modeling and Control of Engineering Systems (Taylor & Francis/CRC Press, 2009); Vibration: Fundamentals and Practice (2nd Ed., Taylor & Francis/CRC Press, 2007); Mechatronics; An Integrated Approach (Taylor & Francis/CRC Press, 2005).

Nimali Tennakoon received her Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Hons) degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Peradeniya (Sri Lanka) in 1993, and the M.Phil. degree in Materials and Manufacturing Engineering from Sheffield Hallam University (UK). She is a Chartered Engineer and a member of the Institute of Engineers Sri Lanka (IESL), a Member of IEEE, and a Member of SLAAS. She is presently a senior lecturer at the Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL). Her current research interests are in soft robotics, finite element analysis, and multiaxial fatigue. Presently, she is the principal investigator in the Soft Robotics Research Group (SORRG) of OUSL. She has over 100 journal papers and conference papers.

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