Theory of Elasticity (3rd ed.)

ALMOST two generations have passed since the original publication of Timoshenko's Theory of Elasticity, and countless thousands of students and engineers have found great pleasure and stimulation from the rewarding insight into the elastic behavior of solid materials provided by the clarity and succinctness of its presentation. The only previous revision of the book, done in collaboration with Professor Goodier, was published just about 20 years ago and emphasized developments in thermal stress problems and elastic wave propagation. This third edition, prepared by Norman Goodier just before his passing last Fall, is a much more extensive revision of the basic work and yet retains all of the flavor and enduring qualities of the original. The present volume is almost a third larger than the first edition and has been completely reset and a number of figures have been redrawn. Timoshenko and Goodier's Theory of Elasticity has a new suit of clothes and is well prepared to meet and serve future generations. Specific revisions incorporated in this third edition are described briefly as follows. End effects and eigensolutions associated with Saint-Venant's principle are given in Chapters 3 and 4. Discontinuous displacements have been given more explicit treatment as edge and screw dislocations in several chaptersChapter 5 on photoelastic methods has been expanded to include the moire's method. The old chapter on strain-energy methods has been rewritten and incorporated into Chapter 8 (General Theorems) as a basis for the analysis of Thermal Stress (Chapter 13). The presentation of complex potentials for two-dimensional problems has been considerably expanded to include the methods attributed to Muskhelishvili. The chapters on Thermal Stress (Chapter 13) and Wave Propagation (Chapter 14) have again been almost completely rewritten in order to emphasize more recent developments. Many other sections have been revised to a greater or lesser extent to provide for more simplified and/or more coheren t treatments.