SDC Engineering Statics

New to the third edition:

The third edition of Engineering Statics contains several important enhancements. This textbook now features a greater discussion of every topic. Fifty pages of additional material are focused on showing how everyday situations are illustrations of Statics concepts. Selected exercises have been formatted in Excel™ and are included on an enclosed CD. Answers selected problems are now shown in the back of the book, and color versions of the graphics have been included on the enclosed CD. The instructor resources for this book have also been updated and greatly expanded.

This textbook uses six teaching instruments:

1. Case studies- Case studies help students learn from historic failures and successes, apply previously-tested knowledge, and realize the intended and unintended social and economic consequences of technology.

2. Short design examples- Design examples provide students with focused opportunities to improve their skill set.

3. Intelligent formulation problems- Intelligent formulation problems nurture the ability to identify alternative approaches to formulating the problem.

4. Conceptual questions- Conceptual questions help to rectify misconceptions and promote long term conceptual understanding of the material.

5. Worksheets- Worksheets offer students the chance to systematically improve their skill sets. Introductory worksheets offer a large number of simple problems that focus on a specific concept. Once students are comfortable with the individual concepts, the challenge worksheets develop their strategic thinking skills.

6. Excel™ formatted problems- Exercises formatted in Excel™ allow students to better analyze problems by changing variables. It also teaches them skills they can use in subsequent courses.

Excel Formatted Problems

Exercises formatted in Excel™ include step-by-step instructions for students to create the shear force and bending moment diagrams using Excel™. This enables students to model complex loading conditions and analyze beam deformation and stresses on there own. The book also uses Excel™ to demonstrate the impact of relationships between two or more functions. Selected problems in Excel™ format are also available for instructor use. This allows instructors to easily generate new problems and answers for each semester.