Strength of Materials; Part I Elementary Theory and Problems; Part II Advanced Theory and Problems

Two Volume Set. Part I: xii, [3], 368, [4] pages. Part II: xi, [1], 401-735, [5] pages. Tables. Figures. Formulae Footnotes. Author Index. Subject Index. Name of previous owner [H. D. Hoeskstra] and a date in 1930 inside front covers. Part I has pencil and ink notation on fep and pages. 74, 75, 78, and 215. Part II has pencil and ink notation on fep and pages 488, 489, 497, 501, 505, 683 and 690. Covers have wear and soiling. Tears at top of spines. Some damp edge staining. Strength of materials, also called mechanics of materials, deals with the behavior of solid objects subject to stresses and strains. The complete theory began with the consideration of the behavior of one and two dimensional members of structures, whose states of stress can be approximated as two dimensional, and was then generalized to three dimensions to develop a more complete theory of the elastic and plastic behavior of materials. An important founding pioneer in mechanics of materials was Stephen Timoshenko. The study of strength of materials often refers to various methods of calculating the stresses and strains in structural members, such as beams, columns, and shafts. The methods employed to predict the response of a structure under loading and its susceptibility to various failure modes takes into account the properties of the materials such as its yield strength, ultimate strength, Young's modulus, and Poisson's ratio; in addition the mechanical element's macroscopic properties (geometric properties), such as its length, width, thickness, boundary constraints and abrupt changes in geometry. Stepan Prokopovych Tymoshenko (December 23, 1878 - May 29, 1972), was a Ukrainian and, later, an American engineer. He is considered to be the father of modern engineering mechanics. A founding member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Timoshenko wrote seminal works in the areas of engineering mechanics, elasticity and strength of materials, many of which are still widely used today. Having started his scientific career in the Russian Empire, Timoshenko emigrated to Yugoslavia during the Russian Civil War and then to the United States. In the fall of 1906 he was appointed to the Chair of Strengths of Materials at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. The return to his native Ukraine turned out to be an important part of his career and also influenced his future personal life. From 1907 to 1911 as a professor at the Polytechnic Institute he did research in the earlier variant of the Finite Element Method of elastic calculations, the so-called Rayleigh method. During those years he also pioneered work on buckling, and published the first version of his famous Strength of materials textbook. In 1911 he was awarded the D. I. Zhuravski prize of the St. Petersburg Ways of Communication Institute. He went to St. Petersburg where he worked as a lecturer and then a Professor in the Electrotechnical Institute and the St. Petersburg Institute of the Railways (1911-1917). During that time he developed the theory of elasticity and the theory of beam deflection, and continued to study buckling. After the Armed Forces of South Russia of general Denikin had taken Kiev in 1919, Timoshenko moved. In 1922 Timoshenko moved to the United States where he worked for the Westinghouse Electric Corporation from 1923 to 1927, after which he became a faculty professor in the University of Michigan where he created the first bachelor's and doctoral programs in engineering mechanics. His textbooks have been published in 36 languages. From 1936 onward he was a professor at Stanford University. In 1957 ASME established a medal named after Stephen Timoshenko; he became its first recipient. The Timoshenko Medal honors Stephen P. Timoshenko as the world-renowned authority in the field of mechanical engineering and it commemorates his contributions as author and teacher. The Timoshenko Medal is given annually for distinguished contributions in applied mechanics. …