<p>I've heard nightmares about this class and I was wondering if there are any resources (Books, materials, online notes, videos,...) that can help with this class and really understanding it? </p>
<p>Our course curriculum is:
" Stresses and strains in elastic and inelastic materials subjected to axial, torsional, and flexural loads and combinations of loads for statistically determinate and indeterminate configurations. Deformations and deflections due to loads and temperature. Combined stresses. Mohr circles and principles stresses. Introduction to energy methods. Castiglian's theorem. Stability of columns and critical loads. Testing of engineering materials. Stress-strain characteristics, including creep, shrinkage and hysteresis effects. Effects of temperature and impact loading on material properties. "</p>
<p>The textbook is Mechanics of Materials by Beer.</p>
<p>It’s an entry level class that any engineer should have no problem with. If you can’t do well in this class, as in A or B, then you should probably re-evaluate your situation.</p>
<p>definitely not a difficult class at all</p>
<p>yea, that’ class is wretched at my school, the material is in fact elementary (a bit of book keeping) but the prof makes it a nightmare…</p>
<p>if the prof is in fact responsbile for the bad rep are your schol just take a different section…I actually opted for the honors sectoin and got an A- lol </p>
<p>Last comment, you should really know statics like the back of your head, hopefully u got a B+ or above in that course…</p>
<p>Why is not so hard at all? What are some fundamentals one has to know? </p>
<p>The professor is known to give VERY Hard exams and he’s the only one that’s teaching it :O</p>
<p>Fundamentals you should know: physics, statics.</p>
<p>The good news is that if the prof is hard, everyone will struggle. You only have to he above the curve.</p>
<p>I had Beer as my professor many years ago. His books still pretty much set the standard…hope you enjoy the class 1/2 as much as I did!</p>
<p>like someone else said, even if it’s a bad prof, the median will still be set around a c- to b…at my school the teacher (who also wrote our book) was failing everyone 5 yrs back and finally the school put him on probation (which I don’t agree with) so yea . </p>
<p>In my opinion cherish Mohr’s circle, it’s the one thing to take away from the class…also practice those combined loading problems at the end, if you can do those it all comes full circle and it just becomes book keeping…also time is key, you shouldn’t be staring at an equation sheet during the exam (that’s how people flunk) so practice a lot of problems beyond the assigned hw sets as the course progesses and it’ll pay off later in terms of speed</p>
<p>I think I used the schaum’s series when I was taking that class… I think I also might’ve used your textbook, but I don’t remember. It’s been years.</p>
<p>Here’s a link:
[Amazon.com:</a> Schaum’s Outline of Strength of Materials 4th Edition (9780070466173): William Nash, William Nash: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Schaums-Outline-Strength-Materials-4th/dp/0070466173]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/Schaums-Outline-Strength-Materials-4th/dp/0070466173)</p>
<p>I believe this is the book we used, though I was an ME so the focus was slightly different.</p>
<p>[Amazon.com:</a> Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction (9780471736967): William D. Callister: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Materials-Science-Engineering-William-Callister/dp/0471736961/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1272430355&sr=8-16]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/Materials-Science-Engineering-William-Callister/dp/0471736961/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1272430355&sr=8-16)</p>
<p>Actually, the class described by the OP almost looks like a mix of Intro Materials, Solid Mechanics and Statics…</p>
<p>I definitely used Mechanics of Materials by Beer 2nd edition.
I found the solutions, but not the book.</p>