This advanced and graduate-level text and self-tutorial teaches readers to understand and to apply analytical design principles across the breadth of the engine... » 

This advanced and graduate-level text and self-tutorial teaches readers to understand and to apply analytical design principles across the breadth of the engineering sciences. Emphasizing fundamentals, the book addresses the stability of key engineering elements such as rigid-body assemblage, beam-columns, rigid frames, thin plates, and much more. «