Statics and strength of materials / H.W. Morrow, Robert P. Kokernak.

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This textbook presents the fundamental principles of statics and strength of materials including forces, resultant, components, reactions, analysis of trusses, strength of materials, stresses and strains, tensile testing of steel and basic mechanical properties, section properties for analysis and design, friction, shear and bending moment diagrams and theory of bending. The authors have covered topics that are concerned with the calculation of external (both applied and reactive) and internal forces or stresses that act on rigid bodies (and particles) in static equilibrium. A body is considered to be in static equilibrium if, under the action of externally applied forces, it remains stationary (or moves with constant velocity). This work also presents the fundamentals of mechanics of materials, studying the relationships between the external loads and the intensity of internal forces acting within the body