Study faster‎,‎ learn better‎,‎ and get top grades‎.‎ Modified to conform to the current curriculum‎,‎ "Schaum‎'‎s Outline of Strength of Materials" complements these courses in scope and sequence to help you understand its basic concepts‎.‎ The book offers extra practice on topics such as determinate force systems‎,‎ indeterminate force systems‎,‎ torsion‎,‎ cantilever beams‎,‎ statically determinate beams‎,‎ and statically indeterminate beams‎.‎ You‎'‎ll also get overage of centroid of an area‎,‎ parallel‎-axis theorem for moment of inertia of a finite area‎,‎ radius of gyration‎,‎ product of inertia of an element of area‎,‎ principal moments of inertia‎,‎ and information from statics‎.‎ This title is appropriate for the following courses‎:‎ Strength of Materials‎;‎ Mechanics of Materials‎;‎ Introductory Structural Analysis‎;‎ and‎,‎ Mechanics and Strength of Materials‎.‎ It features‎:‎ 618 solved problems‎,‎ and support for all the major textbooks for strength of materials courses‎.‎ Topics covered include‎:‎ Tension and Compression‎,‎ Statically Indeterminate Force Systems‎.‎ Tension and Compression‎,‎ Thin‎-Walled Pressure Vessels‎,‎ Direct Shear Stresses‎,‎ Torsion‎,‎ Shearing Force and Bending Moment‎,‎ Centroids‎,‎ Moments of Inertia‎,‎ and Products of Inertia of Plane Areas‎,‎ Stresses in Beams‎,‎ Elastic Deflection of Beams‎:‎ Double‎-Integration Method‎,‎ Elastic Deflection of Beams‎:‎ Method of Singularity Functions‎,‎ Statically Indeterminate Elastic Beams‎,‎ Special topics in Elastic Beam Theory‎,‎ Plastic Deformations of Beams‎,‎ Columns‎,‎ Strain Energy Methods‎,‎ Combined Stresses‎,‎ Members Subject to Combined Loadings‎;‎ and‎,‎ Theories of Failure‎.‎