Profusely illustrated text provides a full exposition of fundamentals of solid mechanics and principles of mechanics, statics, and simple statically indeterminate systems, plus strain and stress in three-dimensional solids, elementary elasticity, stress-strain relations for plastic solids, and energy principles in solid continuum. 1965 edition. Unabridged and corrected Dover republication of the edition published by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., Reading, Mass., 1965.
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