Engineering Mechanics of Solids

Egor P. Popov ( ; February 6, 1913April 19, 2001) was a structural and

seismic engineer who helped to transform the design of buildings, structures, and civil
engineering around earthquake-prone regions.
A relative of inventor Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Egor Popov was born in Kiev, Russian
Empire(now capital of Ukraine), and after moving to America in 1927, he eventually earned a
B.S. d from UC Berkeley, his masters degree from MIT and his doctorate degree from Stanford
in 1946.
During his career, Popov was primarily famous for his work doing research for the University of
California, Berkeley. Some of his accomplishments include: working with buckling problems for
NASA in Houston, Texas, involvement with the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, assisting
with pipe testing for the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline, developing the Steel Moment Resisting Frame
(resistance to earthquake forces), and eccentrically braced frames (ebf's)[1]

This book presents a comprehensive, cross-referenced examination of engineering

mechanics of solids. Traditional topics are supplemented by several newly-emerging
disciplines, such as the probabilistic basis for structural analysis, and matrix
methods. Although retaining its character as a complete traditional book on
mechanics of solids with advanced overtones from the first edition, the second
edition of Engineering Mechanics of Solids has been significantly revised. The book

reflects an emphasis on the SI system of units and presents a simpler approach for
calculations of axial stress that provides a more obvious, intuitive approach. It also
now includes a greater number of chapters as well as an expanded chapter on
Mechanical Properties of Materials and introduces a number of avant-garde topics.
Among these topics are an advanced analytic expression for cyclic loading and a
novel failure surface for brittle material. An essential reference book for civil,
mechanical, and aeronautical engineers.

Solid Mechanics
Solid mechanics is the branch of continuum mechanics that studies the behavior of solid
materials, especially their motion and deformation under the action of forces, temperature
changes, phase changes, and other external or internal agents.
Solid mechanics is fundamental for civil, aerospace, nuclear, and mechanical engineering, for
geology, and for many branches of physics such as materials science. It has specific applications
in many other areas, such as understanding the anatomy of living beings, and the design of dental
prostheses and surgical implants. One of the most common practical applications of solid
mechanics is the Euler-Bernoulli beam equation. Solid mechanics extensively uses tensors to
describe stresses, strains, and the relationship between them.

Applied Mechanics of Solids

Allan F. Bower

This electronic text summarizes the physical laws, mathematical methods, and computer
algorithms that are used to predict the response of materials and structures to mechanical or
thermal loading.

Solid mechanics requires very basics knowledge to be explained. This

concerns as well the technical terms, as the material physics. This first page
introduces the very basics of what you need to have a useful knowledge. It
describes the principles of stress and strain, the Young modulus, and the Poisson
ratio. The schematics and the mesh structure are example to help you understand.
Not all of the materials have their atoms forming a cristal. The principle is the same
for amorph materials.

The force needed to strain the structure depends on its mechanical properties. If you pull a
surface of a cantilever, you apply a stress on it, that we will note , that has the dimension of a
pressure. To express the strain in a mathematical way, we will talk about , with:

The Computational Solid

Mechanics (CSM) Lab promotes research in materials science at LSU and in conjunction with
other research facilities and teams around the world. By specializing in numerical analysis and
experimentation at the nanoscale, CSM pioneers the advancement of knowledge in this emerging
area of science.
Engineers, scientists, and technicians design new products for many reasons: to increase
productivity and efficiency in the industrial process, to reduce the cost of manufacturing, to
replace existing products that are aging, and to add new features that will benefit peoples lives.
Throughout the design process, selection and preparation of proper materials is crucial to
achieving the desired result. As researchers understand more of how and why materials behave
under real-world conditions, they can use that knowledge to create materials that are stronger,
lighter, tougher, safer, etc. than those that are commercially available today.

In solid mechanics, torsion is the twisting of an object due to an applied torque,

therefore is expressed in Nm or ftlbf. In sections perpendicular to the torque axis,
the resultant shear stress in this section is perpendicular to the radius.