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Strength of Materials
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Strength of Materials

by P. Purushothama Raj, V. Ramasamy
May 2012
Intermediate to advanced
485 pages
10h 45m
English
Pearson India
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SALIENT POINTS
  • If the properties of a substance are assumed to exist as continuous distribution of mass, then this idealized subtance is called a continuum.
  • A rigid solid body may be defined as a body in which the relative positions of any two arbitrary points is invariant under any condition.
  • A deformable solid body may be defined as a body which may change its linear or angular dimensions or deform under certain conditions.
  • A body can be isolated from the actions of all the outside systems by representing such actions as a set of forces which are denoted as external forces. External forces comprise body and surface forces.
  • Body forces are distributed once the entire volume of the body and are expressed as force per unit volume.
  • Surface forces ...
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