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Title: Absoloutely Terrible
Review: I *had* to buy this book for a class...only to find out that our instructor stopped using it after the first month of class.I am a graduate student, and as such consider myself to be well grounded in mechanics and structural analysis. In fact, I have taken 3 undergraduate level structural analysis classes and 1 graduate level analysis class - I found this textbook to be nearly impossible to read. It is terrible, and it makes simple concepts impossibly difficult to understand. I feel that this is the worst textbook I have ever read in my life.If you are looking for a good book on structural analysis, go with Hibbeler's "Structural Analysis". It is an excellent reference book and I use it constantly.
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