Best books for Learning Structural engineering and Structural mechanics books?

Vijay Kumar Polimeru
Structural Engineering
3 min readSep 1, 2018

Design of Multi-storey buildings

  1. Illustrated Design of Reinforced Concrete Buildings (Design of G+3 Storeyed Buildings + Earthquake Analysis & Design) — Dr. S. R. Karve and Dr. V. L. Shah
  2. Do not afraid — Preferable for UG, PG and Practicing engineers
  3. Structural Design of Multi Storeyed Building — U. H. Varyani
  4. Do not afraid — Preferable for UG, PG and Practicing engineers

Engineering Mechanics — Statics and Dynamics

  1. Engineering Mechanics — Statics and Dynamics, — RC Hibbeler
  2. Do not afraid — Fundamentals are clearly explained
  3. Preferable for both UG and PG
  4. Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Statics and Dynamics — Beer and Johnston
  5. Do not afraid — Fundamentals are clearly explained
  6. Preferable for both UG and PG

Mechanics of Materials and Strength of Materials

  1. Mechanics of Materials (SI Units) — R C Hibbeler
  2. Do not afraid — Fundamentals are clearly explained
  3. Preferable for both UG and PG
  4. Mechanics of Materials (SI Units) — Beer and Johnston
  5. Do not afraid — Fundamentals are clearly explained
  6. Preferable for both UG and PG
  7. Mechanics of Materials 8th Edition — Gere and Goodno
  8. Do not afraid — Fundamentals are clearly explained
  9. Preferable for both UG and PG
  10. Strength of Materials — (Part — 1) — Stephen Timoshenko
  11. Be careful — Preferable for only PG

Theory of elasticity and Plasticity

  1. Strength of Materials : Advanced Theory and Problems (Part — 2) — Stephen Timoshenko
  2. Be careful — Preferable for only PG
  3. Computational Elasticity — Mohammed Ameen
  4. Do not afraid — Preferable for only PG
  5. Advanced Mechanics of Materials — A. P. Boresi
  6. Do not afraid — Preferable for only PG

Structural Analysis

  1. Structural Analysis — Prof. Devdas Menon
  2. Do not afraid — Fundamentals are clearly explained
  3. Preferable for both UG and PG
  4. Advanced Structural Analysis — Prof. Devdas Menon
  5. Do not afraid — Preferable for only PG
  6. Structural Analysis — R C Hibbeler
  7. Do not afraid — Fundamentals are clearly explained
  8. Preferable for both UG and PG
  9. Structural Analysis — Vol. 1 — S. S. Bhavikatti
  10. Do not afraid — Fundamentals are clearly explained
  11. Preferable for both UG and PG
  12. Structural Analysis — Vol. 2 — S. S. Bhavikatti
  13. Do not afraid — Fundamentals are clearly explained
  14. Preferable for both UG and PG

Pre-stressed Concrete

  1. Prestessed Concrete — Prof. N. Krishna Raju
  2. Do not afraid — Fundamentals are clearly explained
  3. Preferable for both UG and PG
  4. Prestressed Concrete Design, — Prof. Praveen Nagarajan
  5. Do not afraid — Fundamentals are clearly explained
  6. Preferable for both UG and PG
  7. Prestressed Concrete Structures — Prof. Collins and Prof. Mitchell
  8. Be careful — Preferable for only PG

Reinforced Concrete Design

  1. Reinforced Concrete Design — Prof. Menon and S. Pillai
  2. Do not afraid — Fundamentals are clearly explained
  3. Preferable for both UG and PG
  4. Reinforced Concrete Design — Prof. N. Krishna Raju
  5. Do not afraid — Fundamentals are clearly explained
  6. Preferable for both UG and PG
  7. Unified Theory of concrete Structures — Prof. T. T. C. Hsu and Prof. Y. L. mo
  8. Be careful — Preferable for only PG

Steel Design

  1. Design of steel structures (Limit State) — S. S. Bhavikatti
  2. Do not afraid — Fundamentals are clearly explained
  3. Preferable for both UG and PG
  4. Design of steel structures (Limit State) — Prof. Subramaniam
  5. Do not afraid — Fundamentals are clearly explained
  6. Preferable for both UG and PG
  7. Design of steel structures — Prof. S. Duggal
  8. Do not afraid — Fundamentals are clearly explained
  9. Preferable for both UG and PG

Finite Element Analysis

  1. Finite Element Method in Engineering — S. S. Rao
  2. Do not afraid — Fundamentals are clearly explained
  3. Preferable for both UG and PG
  4. Finite Element Analysis — Prof. P. Seshu
  5. Do not afraid — Fundamentals are clearly explained
  6. Preferable for both UG and PG

Structural Dynamics

  1. Dynamics of Structures — Prof. A. K. Chopra
  2. Do not afraid — Preferable for only PG
  3. Mechanical Vibrations — S. S. Rao
  4. Do not afraid — Preferable for only PG

List is not exhaustive.

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Wish you all the best…

Thank you…

Vijay Kumar Polimeru

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