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I thought the book was a very nice touch overall, the main point because we didn’t have to buy it.
In my opinion I would suggest that you continue to have it online for use, another thing I really appreciated was that I could go and look up problems at any point if I had forgotten to write them down-as long as I’m near a computer.
It also has a very nice layout to how it explains things throughout the chapters; all in all, one of the best books that I’ve used online.
It’s a generous contribution for students and young pedagogue. Every chapter is easy to understand from students and fulfill with an useful information.
I have been out of university for some time, well I gotta say that I liked the idea of you putting book online for free. I have to thank you, I got a lot of out this book.
I would to congratulate you on this excellent publication
that you have enriched with so many beautiful real engineering every day applications, and which you have made available for free to the academic community.
I believe this textbook has taken the bibliography in this area a substantial step ahead of its current state of the art.
Thank you very much for sharing with us this knowledge.
I have adopted this textbook for the class I teach at AUA (Athens-Greece) and the students so far have been very receptive of it.
I have tried to locate the associated solution manual to the textbook problem assignments but only Amazon has a relevant mantion which is currently not available.
I would like to know if such a solution manual for instructors has been prepared, and if so how can someone go about securing such a copy for class usage.
I am much obliged for your assistance and feedback on the matter.
Greetings,
Dr. Panagiotis Papadopoulos
Mechanical Engineering Dept.
AUA-Athens
On page 273, problem example 6.8 on equation 3 I think the numbers are wrong. The distance used uin the equation 45kN x 2.5 m, I think the distance should be 2.25 m. The 45kN force is 2.25 m from point B and 3.25 m from point D. Am I correct about this? Thanks, Ray.
Ray
The force of 4.5kN is placed at the centroid of the triangle, which from C is at 1.5. So the calculations shown are correct. I think you are placing it half way, which would be the case if the loading was uniform and not linear as is the case.
Vable
This book is a great help to those without access to references on the subject. I, along with my classmates here in the Philippines are quite thankful!
Respected Sir,
it is a fabulous book on mechanics for engineering but sir please update the answer key of problem set. To check our numericals steps.
Ryan
The answer key is the traditional way in textbooks to give answers for selected problems. This way an instructor can assign some problems for homework. The instructor / grader checks your steps. Or did you mean something else?
I would to congratulate you and if you let me i want translate it to Persian. i am in iran and i am teaching mechanic. thank you very much.
amin Hoseini
Thank you for your comment and offer to translate my book into Persian. Unfortunately there are copyright issues that are difficult to address and thus for now at least I must decline your offer.
Thank you very much for sharing sucha nice book. I really appreciate your efforts. A gentle request..kindly provide some step by step calculations for some of the examples in the Problem set or give some clue for students. If you could add some clues/ hints, I would say it will make the book perfect.
Thanks again.
Omkar
The example problems are supposed to be the guide. The solution to post-text problems is not given so that instructors can use the problem for homework assignments.
Thanks for your comments. In future, I may add supplementary problems for self-learners.
This book has been very useful to me over the past year… im a mechatronics student and have found it to be concise and simple in explanations… thank you…
I must commend you on this book, the theory is very concise and the most important part to these courses, is the amazingly detailed solutions you have to the numerous practice problems. So many of my textbooks don’t seem to understand that all the proofs and theory means nothing if there are no examples to show how it is applied. Thank-you so much for this book, and hopefully I will be able to pass my advanced strength of materials class thanks to you
Excellent book I have ever read as a student by now. The effort is noticeable and it meets the demand of time. Weak students like me will pray for you as long as they remain alive with mechanics………and its your matter of big heart that you did not think of money out of it, you made it free……..I think one day Allah will pay you more a lot than you imagine…
To Dear Sir Vable and everybody else who shared this book,
I am living in afghanistan and studing here you can imagine the educational problems and it may be more worse than you imagine but today i got a book like this from you which will realy help me studing mechanics.
Finally i will say on the behalf of all other students like me who want to study in every hard condition life offer them (Thanks alot and thank you very much) wish you all much more success in your life.
Thank you Prof. Vable for the on-line availability of your excellent text. I used it as a refresher for preparing for my PE exam. In particular, I was looking for example spreadsheets for calculating the Moment of Inertia for shapes, and I found you had shown the way in your appendicies. Exactly what I was looking for and proves your text is more modern than the others on the market. Overall, by scanning, I find that you have done a wonderful job with the illustrations to get your point across (i.e., tower of Mackinaw Bridge to show axial loading & vitual cuts, in blue, to show display sections for mechanics analysis). Of particular value to me will be the practice exams at the end with solutions. Again, thank you for making your very professional text available to students of all kinds. I hope to continue to use it in my continuing education.
September 17th, 2009 at 9:24 am
Thank you for making the material available. I have been out of University for almost 20 years and find this very useful.
September 20th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
As a long time engineer myself, I thank you for making this text available online. It is indeed useful.
September 29th, 2009 at 11:57 am
Thanks, This is a very generous contribution…
December 16th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Professor Vable,
I thought the book was a very nice touch overall, the main point because we didn’t have to buy it.
In my opinion I would suggest that you continue to have it online for use, another thing I really appreciated was that I could go and look up problems at any point if I had forgotten to write them down-as long as I’m near a computer.
It also has a very nice layout to how it explains things throughout the chapters; all in all, one of the best books that I’ve used online.
January 28th, 2010 at 12:48 am
nice graphics, easy to understand & explanation is good.It is useful one.
March 2nd, 2010 at 12:38 pm
Dear Prof.
It’s a generous contribution for students and young pedagogue. Every chapter is easy to understand from students and fulfill with an useful information.
April 15th, 2010 at 8:37 am
Thanks so much Professor,
I have been out of university for some time, well I gotta say that I liked the idea of you putting book online for free. I have to thank you, I got a lot of out this book.
Akbar Gherbal
Bahrain
May 27th, 2010 at 10:44 pm
Thanks so much. It’s a great book and great action. It’s very useful.
August 13th, 2010 at 7:35 am
thank you for sharing this book. now i need so much!
August 30th, 2010 at 1:42 am
explaination has to be given in more better way
August 30th, 2010 at 8:35 am
Thanks so much
August 30th, 2010 at 8:38 am
Every chapter is easy to understand from students and fulfill with an useful information.
September 28th, 2010 at 6:06 am
Dear Sir greetings from Athens, Greece
I would to congratulate you on this excellent publication
that you have enriched with so many beautiful real engineering every day applications, and which you have made available for free to the academic community.
I believe this textbook has taken the bibliography in this area a substantial step ahead of its current state of the art.
Thank you very much for sharing with us this knowledge.
I have adopted this textbook for the class I teach at AUA (Athens-Greece) and the students so far have been very receptive of it.
I have tried to locate the associated solution manual to the textbook problem assignments but only Amazon has a relevant mantion which is currently not available.
I would like to know if such a solution manual for instructors has been prepared, and if so how can someone go about securing such a copy for class usage.
I am much obliged for your assistance and feedback on the matter.
Greetings,
Dr. Panagiotis Papadopoulos
Mechanical Engineering Dept.
AUA-Athens
September 29th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
On page 273, problem example 6.8 on equation 3 I think the numbers are wrong. The distance used uin the equation 45kN x 2.5 m, I think the distance should be 2.25 m. The 45kN force is 2.25 m from point B and 3.25 m from point D. Am I correct about this? Thanks, Ray.
Ray
The force of 4.5kN is placed at the centroid of the triangle, which from C is at 1.5. So the calculations shown are correct. I think you are placing it half way, which would be the case if the loading was uniform and not linear as is the case.
Vable
October 29th, 2010 at 1:00 pm
thank you very much.this work is very helpful to all of world.
December 6th, 2010 at 10:40 am
Very good book .
Thank you, sir
December 12th, 2010 at 2:04 am
This book is a great help to those without access to references on the subject. I, along with my classmates here in the Philippines are quite thankful!
December 19th, 2010 at 12:50 pm
Respected Sir,
it is a fabulous book on mechanics for engineering but sir please update the answer key of problem set. To check our numericals steps.
Ryan
The answer key is the traditional way in textbooks to give answers for selected problems. This way an instructor can assign some problems for homework. The instructor / grader checks your steps. Or did you mean something else?
Vable
January 24th, 2011 at 5:29 pm
thnx it is very useful
February 9th, 2011 at 8:57 pm
thank you very much and i want to continue please
February 21st, 2011 at 12:42 am
Respected SIr,
This is a very good book.
Thank you very much sir.
May 22nd, 2011 at 4:08 am
thanks
June 8th, 2011 at 8:59 am
I would to congratulate you and if you let me i want translate it to Persian. i am in iran and i am teaching mechanic. thank you very much.
amin Hoseini
June 20th, 2011 at 9:12 am
It has huge amount of data giving complete knowledge
Thank You
June 20th, 2011 at 9:29 am
Thank you for your comment and offer to translate my book into Persian. Unfortunately there are copyright issues that are difficult to address and thus for now at least I must decline your offer.
July 23rd, 2011 at 3:34 am
Thank you very much for sharing sucha nice book. I really appreciate your efforts. A gentle request..kindly provide some step by step calculations for some of the examples in the Problem set or give some clue for students. If you could add some clues/ hints, I would say it will make the book perfect.
Thanks again.
Omkar
The example problems are supposed to be the guide. The solution to post-text problems is not given so that instructors can use the problem for homework assignments.
Thanks for your comments. In future, I may add supplementary problems for self-learners.
Vable
August 18th, 2011 at 5:58 am
The book is very good. It is very useful.
August 21st, 2011 at 2:12 am
This book has been very useful to me over the past year… im a mechatronics student and have found it to be concise and simple in explanations… thank you…
August 26th, 2011 at 11:59 am
thanq sir, it is very useful to every student
September 5th, 2011 at 11:20 am
it’s very very good book, thank you
October 13th, 2011 at 1:57 am
I must commend you on this book, the theory is very concise and the most important part to these courses, is the amazingly detailed solutions you have to the numerous practice problems. So many of my textbooks don’t seem to understand that all the proofs and theory means nothing if there are no examples to show how it is applied. Thank-you so much for this book, and hopefully I will be able to pass my advanced strength of materials class thanks to you
October 18th, 2011 at 1:06 pm
Excellent book I have ever read as a student by now. The effort is noticeable and it meets the demand of time. Weak students like me will pray for you as long as they remain alive with mechanics………and its your matter of big heart that you did not think of money out of it, you made it free……..I think one day Allah will pay you more a lot than you imagine…
October 19th, 2011 at 9:35 am
thanks alot 4 this special book,It’s really amazing and i wish you 2 keep doing this.
October 21st, 2011 at 12:35 am
Dear Sir, thank for shear this book , its very good book and useful to student and engineer
November 23rd, 2011 at 3:15 am
thanks alot . it is the best book than i read .
December 9th, 2011 at 3:49 am
it’s very very good book, thank you
February 8th, 2012 at 7:48 am
Thank You sir, this is a very useful resource for students, engineers and all those who want concepts nicely
February 9th, 2012 at 6:18 am
Great textbook mate! Thanks for sharing this with us.
February 18th, 2012 at 5:53 pm
Thank you for your great effort and your great book.
February 29th, 2012 at 1:51 pm
Thank you for the comprehensive book. I verfied many of our off-road automotive structural designs by following exmaples of your book.
Thanks again,
March 6th, 2012 at 3:22 pm
To Dear Sir Vable and everybody else who shared this book,
I am living in afghanistan and studing here you can imagine the educational problems and it may be more worse than you imagine but today i got a book like this from you which will realy help me studing mechanics.
Finally i will say on the behalf of all other students like me who want to study in every hard condition life offer them (Thanks alot and thank you very much) wish you all much more success in your life.
Tehzib
March 14th, 2012 at 7:38 am
thanks for your permit to open this ebook, this topics was used in learning about mechanics of solid material
March 26th, 2012 at 10:41 am
Thank you dear sir for sharing this book.It introduces methods for solving problems clearly which we need to know them.
April 3rd, 2012 at 10:03 am
Thank you Prof. Vable for the on-line availability of your excellent text. I used it as a refresher for preparing for my PE exam. In particular, I was looking for example spreadsheets for calculating the Moment of Inertia for shapes, and I found you had shown the way in your appendicies. Exactly what I was looking for and proves your text is more modern than the others on the market. Overall, by scanning, I find that you have done a wonderful job with the illustrations to get your point across (i.e., tower of Mackinaw Bridge to show axial loading & vitual cuts, in blue, to show display sections for mechanics analysis). Of particular value to me will be the practice exams at the end with solutions. Again, thank you for making your very professional text available to students of all kinds. I hope to continue to use it in my continuing education.