5R24. Mechanics of Materials. - A Bedford and K Liechti (Dept of Aerospace Eng and Eng Mech, Univ of Texas, Austin TX). Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River NJ. 2000. 627 pp. CD-ROM included. ISBN 0-201-89552-8. $103.00.
Reviewed by M Epstein (Dept of Mech Eng, Univ of Calgary, 2500 University Dr NW, Calgary AB, T2N 1N4, Canada).
In a market already flooded with textbooks on Mechanics of Materials, the appearance of yet another one is greeted with a mixture of skepticism and hope. The preface to this book starts by feeding the latter when it declares that the “long-held dream of the merger of continuum solid mechanics and material science into a unified field” is near at hand. Whether or not this is true, or even desirable, this book does little to contribute in pointing the prospective student in that direction. After a statement containing an almost unforgivable spelling error...
