Ebook: Simplified Mechanics & Strength of Materials for Architects and Builders

Structural Mechanics --
Accuracy of Computations --
Structures: Purpose and Function --
Loads --
Special Considerations for Loads --
Generation of Structures --
Reactions --
Internal Forces --
Functional Requirements of Structures --
Types of Internal Force --
Stress and Strain --
Dynamic Effects --
Design for Structural Response --
Forces and Force Actions --
Loads and Resistance --
Forces and Stresses --
Types of Forces --
Vectors --
Properties of Forces --
Motion --
Force Components and Combinations --
Graphical Analysis of Forces --
Investigation of Force Actions --
Friction --
Moments --
Forces on a Beam --
Analysis of Trusses --
Graphical Analysis of Trusses --
Algebraic Analysis of Trusses --
The Method of Sections --
Analysis of Beams --
Types of Beams --
Loads and Reactions --
Shear in Beams --
Bending Moments in Beams --
Sense of Bending in Beams --
Cantilever Beams --
Tabulated Values for Beam Behavior --
Continuous and Restrained Beams --
Bending Moments for Continuous Beams --
Restrained Beams --
Beams with Internal Pins --
Approximate Analysis of Continuous Beams --
Retaining Walls --
Horizontal Earth Pressure --
Stability of Retaining Walls --
Vertical Soil Pressure --
Rigid Frames --
Cantilever Frames --
Single-Span Frames --
Noncoplanar Force Systems --
Concurrent Systems --
Parallel Systems --
General Noncoplanar Systems --
Properties of Sections --
Centroids --
Moment of Inertia --
Transferring Moments of Inertia --
Miscellaneous Properties --
Tables of Properties of Sections