Reddit reviews Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain
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NCEES Study Material
Machinery's Handbook
Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain
Whenever there's a question about stresses I have one book I turn to:
Roark's Formluas. It will at least point you in the right direction.
Bruhn, Niu, Roark and Niu (again) are the bibles for aerospace structures. Bruhn is always ridiculously expensive but it's hard to beat. Not sure why they won't put another edition out, everyone uses it.
Best way to learn FEA is by doing. Taking a class to understand the theory is very helpful (in my opinion). Gives the user a deeper insight into how the model is working - especially how the nodal DOFs of each type element work. Making models in "one button push" FE packages like Solidworks or ProMechanica is only so helpful. Building the models by hand or creating your own programs is the best way to develop an understanding.
If you are motivated, here is a good class with all the chapters and notes online.
On my first MechE internship, I was working out the stresses on a vacuum chamber by hand to approx double-check the FEA results. An hour into it, my boss walked by and found out what I was doing.
"If you're using calculus, you're doing it wrong," and handed me a Roark handbook.
His comment was overly simplistic, but very representative of engineer's view on the matter. We don't have time to work out the theory, we need that vacuum chamber done by tomorrow morning.
Depends on the temperature. If at room temperature you don't need BPVC. All you will need is this:
http://www.amazon.com/Roarks-Formulas-Stress-Strain-Warren/dp/007072542X
and the materials data safety sheet from your steel.