A Text-Book of the Strength of Materials and of Stresses in Structures offers practical guidance for high school and technical students learning how structures bear loads.
It presents step-by-step methods to analyze trusses, beams, and girders, using clear diagrams and worked examples.
This edition covers how dead and live loads affect different members, how to determine moments of inertia, and how to estimate modulus of rupture. It shows graphical and calculation techniques that help readers assess stress in real-world structures like bridges and roofs, with emphasis on safe and economical design.
- Learn how to model complex systems such as double and lattice trusses
- See how to compute stresses in chords, diagonals, and web members
- Work through practical bridge and bowstring girder problems
- Explore how to estimate material strength, safety factors, and failure points
Ideal for students of engineering drawing, mechanics, and materials science who want hands-on methods for predicting structural behavior.