Strength of materials
by Stephen Timoshenko · first published 1930
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…catalog of what to apply where, which are all good, but are useless without insight. Mechanical Engineering (ME is a large field, and I will limit to these two books.) Stephen Timoshenko's two volume Strength of Materials is a seminal work, and still relevant, on a topic that is at the core of mechanical and civil engineering. Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design deals with designing machine parts, which is in a sense…
on “Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?” ↗"the History of Strength of Materials" By Stephen Timoshenko Dr. Timoshenko, the father of thin shell theory in the field of solids of mechanics outlines accomplishments in this field as related to the conquest of land and wars. Another…
on “Ask HN: Best books read in 2022” ↗…Theory of Surfaces, Finikov ... and several other problem book series for university mathematics. Engineering (mechanics): (1) Anti-Mescherski series (2) Theoretical Mechanics, V. M. Starzhinski (3) Strength of Materials, Stiopin (4) Problems in Strength of Materials, Volmir [0] https://urss.ru/cgi-bin/db.pl?lang=sp&blang=en&page=Bookstor... (apparently the headquarters are in Peru now)
on “Problems in Linear Algebra (1978), a book of solved problems” ↗