OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
2002

and an associated company in Berlin

Published by Oxford University Press, Inc.
198 Madison Avenue, New York, New York, 10016
http://www.oup-usa.org

Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University, Press

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Vable, Madhukar.
Mechanics of materials / Madhukar Vable.
p. cm.

1. Materials-Mechanical properties. 2. Mechanics, Applied. I. Title: Mechanics of materials. II. Title.

TA405 .V28 2002
620.1 ?1292-dc21

2001032144

9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

DEDICATED TO MY FATHER
Krishna Rao Vable

AND MY MOTHER
Saudamini Gautam Vable

About the Author

Madhukar Vable is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at Michigan Technological University (MTU). He was given the MTU Distinguished Teacher Award (1998) and the Distinguished Faculty Member Award from the Michigan Association of Governing Boards of State Universities (1999). His research interests are in the field of computational mechanics and include the boundary element method, finite method, and finite difference method as applied to problems in solid mechanics.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

A book is shaped by the numerous ideas, events, and people that have influenced an author. In my case, the greatest influence has been that of the late Professor D. L. Sikarskie. He...