SCHAUM'S OUTLINE OF

THEORY AND PROBLEMS

OF

STRENGTH OF MATERIALS

Fourth Edition

WILLIAM A. NASH, Ph.D. Professor of Civil Engineering

University of Massachusetts

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This book is dedicated by the author to his parents, William A . Nash and Rose Nash, for their years of patient guidance toward his career.

WILLIAM A. NASH is Professor of Civil Engineering at the University -0f Massachusetts. Amherst. He received his B.S. and M.S. from the Illinois Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He served as Structural Research Engineer at the David Taylor Research Center of the Navy Department in Washington. D.C., and was a f~ulty member at the University of Aorida for 13 years prior to his present affiliation. He has had extensive consulting experience with the U.S. Air Force. the U.S. Navy Department, Lockheed Aerospace Corp., and the General Electric Co. His special areas of interest are structural dynamics and structural stability.

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