This book is a pilot course in the Mechanics of Materials (Elasticity and Strength) offered to engineering students throughout the bachelor study. The main objective of this course is for students of engineering to develop the ability to analyse a given problem in a simple and logical manner and to its solution, apply a few fundamental and well-understood principles. This book consists of 6 chapters which include fundamental types of loading: axial, torsional, bending, and transversal. Each chapter contains many solved and unsolved problems.

• List Of Symbols
• Preface

1. Bending of Straight Beams
   1. Introduction
   2. Supports and Reactions
   3. Bending Moment and Shear Force
   4. Shear and Bending Moment Diagrams
   5. Relations among Load, Shear, and the Bending Moment
   6. Definition of Normal and Shearing Stresses
   7. Design of Straight Prismatic Beams
   8. Examples, Solved and Unsolved Problems
2. Deflection of Beams
   1. Introduction
   2. Integration method
   3. Using a Singularity Function to Determine the Slope and Deflection of Beams
   4. Castigliano’s Theorem
   5. Deflections by Castigliano’s Theorem
   6. Statically Indeterminate Beams
   7. Examples, solved and unsolved problems
3. Columns
   1. Introduction
   2. Stability of Structures
   3. Euler’s formulas for Columns
   4. Design of Columns under a Centric Load
   5. Design of Columns under an Eccentric Load
   6. Examples, solved and unsolved problems

• Appendix
• References