Den Hartog J.P. Advanced Strength of Materials

Dover Publications, Inc. New York. 1952. – 401 pp. (Dover Books on Engineering)This book deals with material which is covered in two courses at each of a semester’s duration. The first of these, taken in the senior year, deals with Chaps. 1, 2, 3, and 5; and the second, given as a graduate course, covers the remaining chapters. As the title indicates, the book cannot be used by a beginner; it is aimed at the student who has had the usual one- semester course in elementary strength of materials. In writing this text I have followed the notations of my previous elementary Strength of Materials (1949), and Mechanics (1948), but the present book can be used after the study of any other elementary exposition.
Many good textbooks on elementary strength of materials are readily available and, on the other hand, the mature student can find all that is wanted in the series of advanced books by Timoshenko on elasticity, plates and shells, and elastic stability. The difference in level between those books and the elementary texts, however, is formidable, and with this text an attempt has been made to bridge the gap and supply something of intermediate difficulty.