Textbooks
Required
Courtney. Mechanical Behavior of Materials. 2nd ed. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press Inc., 2005. ISBN: 9781577664253.
Recommended Supplementary
Other General References on Mechanical Behavior:
Dieter, G. E. Mechanical Metallurgy. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1986. ISBN: 9780070168930.
Dowling, N. Mechanical Behavior of Materials. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1993. ISBN: 9780135790465.
References on Special Topics:
- Elasticity
Landau, L. D., and E. M. Lifshitz. Theory of Elasticity. New York, NY: Pergamon Press, 1986. ISBN: 9780080339177.
Love, A. E. H. A Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of Elasticity. New York, NY: Dover Publications, 1927. ISBN: 9780486601748.
Nye, J. F. Physical Properties of Crystals: Their Representation by Tensors and Matrices. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1985. ISBN: 9780198511656.
- Plasticity
Bacon, D. J., and D. Hull. Introduction to Dislocations. New York, NY: Pergamon Press, 1984. ISBN: 9780080287201.
Hirth, J. P., and J. Lothe. Theory of Dislocations. Malabar, FL: Krieger Publishing Company, 1992. ISBN: 9780894646171.
Phillips, R. Crystals, Defects and Microstructures. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780521790055.
- Creep, Fatigue, Fracture
Andersen, T. L. Fracture Mechanics: Fundamentals and Applications. New York, NY: CRC Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780849342608.
Hertzberg, R. W. Deformation and Fracture Mechanics for Engineering Materials. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1995. ISBN: 9780471012146.
Lawn, B. Fracture of Brittle Solids. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780521409728.
Suresh, S. Fatigue of Materials. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780521570466.
- General Statics of Deformation of Structures
Hibbeler, R. C. Mechanics of Materials. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2004. ISBN: 9780131913455.
Bedford, A. Statics and Mechanics of Materials. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002. ISBN: 9780130285935.
*Note: There are many texts that treat various aspects of mechanical behavior. However, these texts tend to treat either the mechanics or the materials perspectives well, rather than integrating the two. Your lecture notes provide this integration, and we have placed on reserve the “best” textbook for specific topics.
