MDSolids is educational software for students taking the Mechanics of Materials course (also commonly called Strength of Materials or Mechanics of Deformable Solids). This course is typically a part of civil, mechanical, and aerospace engineering programs and a number of related programs.
The software features educational routines for beams, flexure, torsion members, columns, axial structures, statically indeterminate structures, trusses, section properties, and Mohr's circle analysis including stress transformations and strain transformations.
MDSolids was a winner of the 1998 Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware. mdsolids mechanics materials strength materials educational software engineering software beams torsion Mohr's circle analysis stress transformations strain transformations bending flexure columns section properties indeterminate structures  

MDSolids requires Windows 95/98/2000/XP or Windows NT 4 and at least SVGA resolution (800 x 600). This fully-functional version is shareware. It may be used free-of-charge for a 30-day evaluation period.

What's new?

  • Animated Games and Learning Tools - Sixteen games and learning tools for topics such as:
    • Shear force and bending moment diagrams
    • Section properties (centroids, moment of inertia, Q)
    • Stress transformation equations
    • Mohr's circle stress transformations
    • Mohr's circle strain transformations

  • MDSolids Navigator - Brief instructions to help you use MDSolids with current editions of Mechanics of Materials textbooks by:
    • Beer, Johnston, and DeWolf, 3rd Edition
    • Craig, 2nd Edition
    • Gere, 5th Edition
    • Hibbeler, 4th Edition
    • Riley, Sturges, and Morris, 5th Edition
  • Two new routines for statically indeterminate torsion members: coaxial shafts and end-to-end shafts
  • Added an option to switch the determinate beam moment diagram plotting convention
  • Added two more determinate beam design options
  • Added calculations for beam curvature and fully plastic moments
mdsolids mechanics materials strength materials educational software engineering software beams torsion Mohr's circle analysis stress transformations strain transformations bending flexure columns section properties indeterminate structures Be sure to look for MDSolids in the Wiley engineering textbook Mechanics of Materials, 2nd Edition, by Roy R. Craig, Jr.

For more software related to civil, structural and bridge engineering, you can find a number of programs and links at the Structural Software, Inc. website:

Structural Software Inc.
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