Engineering Mechanics 1 Statics /

• Main Authors: Gross, Dietmar (Author), Hauger, Werner (Author), Schröder, Jörg (Author), Wall, Wolfgang A. (Author), Rajapakse, Nimal (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2013.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Mathematics.; Physics.; Mechanical engineering.; Civil engineering.; Electrical engineering.; Materials science.; Mechanical Engineering.; Civil Engineering.; Electrical Engineering.; Materials Science, general.; Physics, general.; Mathematics, general.

Statics is the first volume of a three-volume textbook on Engineering Mechanics. The authors, using a time-honoured straightforward and flexible approach, present the basic concepts and principles of mechanics in the clearest and simplest form possible to advanced undergraduate engineering students...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Basic Concepts
• Forces with a Common Point of Application
• General Systems of Forces, Equilibrium of a Rigid Body
• Center of Gravity, Center of Mass, Centroids
• Support Reactions
• Trusses
• Beams, Frames, Arches
• Work and Potential Energy
• Static and Kinetic Friction.