The Leading Practical Guide to Stress Analysis—Updated with State-of-the-Art Methods, Applications, and Problems

This widely acclaimed exploration of real-world stress analysis reflects advanced methods and applications used in today's mechanical, civil, marine, aeronautical engineering, and engineering mechanics/science environments. Practical and systematic, Advanced Mechanics of Materials and Applied Elasticity, Sixth Edition, has been updated with many new examples, problems, MATLAB solutions, tables, and charts.

Lead author Ansel C. Ugural balances discussions of advanced solid mechanics, elasticity theory, classical analysis, and computerized numerical approaches that facilitate solutions when problems resist analysis. He illustrates applications with case studies, worked examples, and problems drawn from modern applications, preparing readers for both advanced study and practice.

Readers will find updated coverage of analysis and design principles, failure criteria, fracture mechanics, compound cylinders, rotating disks, 3-D Mohr's circles, energy and variational methods, buckling of stepped columns, common shell types, inelastic materials behavior, and more. Ugural addresses the use of new materials in bridges, buildings, automobiles, submarines, ships, aircraft, and spacecraft. He offers significantly expanded coverage of stress concentration factors and contact stress developments.

• Review fundamentals of statics, solids mechanics, stress, and modes of load transmission
• Master stress analysis and design principles through hands-on practice that illuminates their connections
• Understand plane stress, stress transformations, deformations, and strains
• Analyze a body's load-carrying capacity based on strength, stiffness, and stability
• Explore failure criteria and material behavior under diverse conditions, and predict component deformation or buckling
• Learn and apply the theory of elasticity
• Solve problems related to beam bending, noncircular torsion, and axisymmetrically loaded components, plates, or shells
• Use the numerical finite element method to economically solve complex problems
• Characterize the plastic behavior of materials