This text is offered to engineering students in the sophomore or junior year. The main objective is to help develop in the engineering student the ability to analyse a given problem in a simple and logical manner and to apply to its solution a few fundamental and well-understood principles. In this text, the study of the mechanics of materials is based on the understanding of a few basic concepts and on the use of simplified models. This approach makes it possible to develop all the necessary formulas in a rational and logical manner and to clearly indicate the conditions under which they can be safely applied to the analysis and design of actual engineering structures and machine components.

Chapter 1 Introduction-Concept of Stress
Chapter 2 Stress and Strain – Axial Loading
Chapter 3 Torsion
Chapter 4 Pure Bending
Chapter 5 Analysis and Design of Beams for Bending
Chapter 6 Shearing Stresses in Beams and Thin-Walled Members
Chapter 7 Transformations of Stress and Strain
Chapter 8 Principal Stresses Under a Given Loading
Chapter 9 Deflection of Beams Chapter
Chapter 10 Columns
Chapter 11 Energy Methods