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This treatise provides a broad overview of the definitions of fundamental quantities and methods of analysis for the use of solid materials in structural components. The presentation is limited to the linear elastic range of material behavior where there is a one to one relationship between load and displacement. Fundamental methods of analysis and typical results for structures made of elastic, solid materials subjected to axial, bending, torsion, thermal, and internal pressure loading are presented. Basics concepts of stability, plates, shells, finite element method, and mechanics of fibrous composite materials are introduced. The treatise is intended as an introduction for specialist in fields such as aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, materials science, and civil engineering. It is also intended to serve as an overview, and possibly the only formal study of the subject for specialists in other fields of engineering and science.

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Carl T. Herakovich is (the Henry L. Kinnier) Professor Emeritus in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia. He received a BS in Civil Engineering at Rose Polytechnic Institute (now Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology), MS in Mechanics at The University of Kansas, and PhD in Mechanics at Illinois Institute of Technology. He taught in the Engineering Science and Mechanics Department at Virginia Tech for twenty years prior to joining the faculty of the University of Virginia. He was the founder of the NASA-Virginia Tech Composites Program, Chair of the Applied Mechanics Division and Vice President of the Basic Engineering Group of ASME, President of the Society of Engineering Science, Secretary of the U. S. National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, and a US Delegate to the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. He is the author of Mechanics of Fibrous Composites and author or co-author on more than 135 scholarly papers.

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