A Textbook of Strength of Materials

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Review ------ EXCELLENT BOOK I've been reading this book for the past 2 months. The concepts are easy to understand and the language is simple and clear. The paper quality is also very good.This book is highly recommended if you want to learn about material strengths --Winston Leonard 03 Apr 2012 Another nice book by Bansal !!!!!! From chapter 1 to last chapter no error in problems and solutions. Printing is error free ,diagrams are big and nice as well as flawless.Covers entire syllabus of Mechanical Eng SOM subject. Bending Moment and Shearing Force chapter is so easily explained .Likewise torsion,columns and struts etc. According to me this one of best book by Indian author among other. --Amey Vichare 26 Nov 2014 superb book good value for money.It is a great book for making the fundamental concepts easy to understand. The concepts are easy to understand and the language is simple and clear. The paper quality is also very good. --Saketh Adhikarla 18 Sep 2014 About the Author ---------------- Prof. R. K Bansal was born on Jan. 1, 1943. He graduated in Mechanical Engineering in 1966. and joined Delhi College of Engineering in1967 as lecturer and rose to the post of professor in 1995. Prof. Bansal did M. Tech Degree in 1975 with Honors from I.I.T. Delhi and Ph. D. from University of Delhi in 1981. He guided many final year projects, 08 M.E. Thesis and 01 Ph.D. student. He published many papers and two of his papers Application of F.E.M. to potential flow over a cylinder and F.E. analysis of ideal fluid flow over an Axi-symmetric solid body got Certificate of Merit from Institution of Engineers (India). Prof. Bansal held the position of Head of Department of Mechanical Engineering, faculty of Technology University of Delhi from 1st Jan 2000 to 31.12.2002. He also served as Dean (U.G. Studies) and Dean (P.G. Studies) in Delhi College of Engineering. Prof. Bansal is the author of many Engineering books which are followed as Text books in most of Engineering Institutions of the country. He got First Ever, Distinguished Authors Award in 1999 by the Federation of Educational Publishers in India. After retirement Prof. Bansal is serving as an advisor and Professor in the department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering in Northern India Engineering College, FC 26 Shastri Park, Delhi -110053. Prof. Bansal was awarded Distinguish Author Award in World Book Fair by Afro Asian Book Council on 4th February 2010. He also received Distinguish Faculty Award of Delhi College of Engineering on 6th February 2010