Help required for choosing books for the various engineering subjects

[chiraganand]

Hi,

Can anyone please suggest me some of the best books and video tutorials for the below subjects?
1. Strength of materials/ Mechanics of materials
2. Mathematics- Calculus, differential equations
3. Books on how to find centroids, center of gravity and basicly pre requisye knowledge to strength of materials
4. Composites- material science and design of structures
5. Non destructive testing
6. Finite element method/ analysis

Thanks!

 

[paisiello2]

These are some of the books I used in school almost 20 years ago:
1. RC Hibbeler, Mechanics of Materials
2. Boyce and DiPrima, Elementary Differential Equations
3. RC Hibbeler, Engineering Mechanics: Statics and Dynamics
4. No textbook.
5. Never took a course.
6. Cook, Applications of Finite Element Analysis

I think any textbook on the subject should be good enough to start to learn the subject.

 

[chiraganand]

Hi paisiello thanks for your help, i will go through the book.. i have laready gone thru cook but i think its a little too advanced for beginners.. i have gone thru many finite element books but most of them start from later concepts.. yet to find a book which starts from the core concepts

 

[NumericalFEA]

There is a huge variety of books devoted to different areas of FEA.
The vast majority of them suffer from one and the same shortcoming though: they contain no, or very little, codes in C/C++ (or even in FORTRAN) that would be "ready-to-use", so to say. Reading long derivations of mathematical formulas can sometimes be frustrating for a person with a strongly engineering mindset, who actually wants to "put his hands on" really working codes, that would deliver numerical results (displacements, bending moments, shear forces, stresses, etc.) right on the spot. Here is one of the few books that contain complete source codes (it is available from amazon.com ) :
"Computational Geometry of Surfaces and Its Application to the Finite Element Analysis of Shells " (by O.Axenenko and A.Tsvelikh)

 

[rezeew]

I would recommend the following resources for the engineering subjects you mentioned:

1. Strength of Materials/Mechanics of Materials:
- "Mechanics of Materials" by Russell C. Hibbeler
- "Strength of Materials" by S. Ramamrutham
- "Mechanics of Materials: An Integrated Learning System" by Timothy A. Philpot
- "Mechanics of Materials: An Introduction to the Mechanics of Elastic and Plastic Deformation of Solids and Structural Components" by E.J. Hearn

2. Mathematics - Calculus, Differential Equations:
- "Calculus: Early Transcendentals" by James Stewart
- "Differential Equations and Linear Algebra" by C. Henry Edwards and David E. Penney
- "Calculus" by Michael Spivak
- "Differential Equations and Their Applications: An Introduction to Applied Mathematics" by Martin Braun

3. Centroids, Center of Gravity, and Basic Pre-requisite Knowledge for Strength of Materials:
- "Statics and Mechanics of Materials" by Ferdinand P. Beer and E. Russell Johnston Jr.
- "Engineering Mechanics: Statics and Dynamics" by R.C. Hibbeler
- "Mechanics of Materials with Applications in Excel" by Don H. Morris
- "Strength of Materials: A Unified Theory" by Surya N. Patnaik and Dale Hopkins

4. Composites - Material Science and Design of Structures:
- "Composite Materials: Science and Engineering" by Krishan K. Chawla
- "Design and Analysis of Composite Structures: With Applications to Aerospace Structures" by Christos Kassapoglou
- "Introduction to Composite Materials Design" by Ever J. Barbero
- "Composite Materials: Fabrication Handbook #2" by John Wanberg

5. Non-Destructive Testing:
- "Non-Destructive Testing" by Baldev Raj, T. Jayakumar, and M. Thavasimuthu
- "Introduction to Nondestructive Testing: A Training Guide" by Paul E. Mix
- "Non-Destructive Testing: A Practical Approach" by Baldev Raj, T. Jayakumar, and M. Thavasimuthu
- "Non-Destructive Testing Techniques" by Ravi Prakash

6. Finite Element Method/Analysis:
- "Finite Element Analysis: Theory and Application With ANSYS"