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Strength of Materials
How solid members stretch, bend, twist and buckle under load.
Topics by level
Basics
School, diploma and first-year level: the ideas in plain words.
Intermediate
Degree and exam core (GATE, ESE level).
Advanced and Design
Professional design practice.
Research
Frontier topics for researchers and postgraduates.
- Plasticity planned
- Fracture mechanics planned
- Fatigue planned
Codes and standards
No single design code governs this subject; see the related subjects and the codes library.
References and further reading
Standard texts, listed in no order of merit. We do not copy text, figures, tables or solved problems from any book; our explanations and examples are original.
- J. M. Gere, B. J. Goodno, Mechanics of Materials, Cengage, latest edition.
- F. P. Beer, E. R. Johnston, J. T. DeWolf, Mechanics of Materials, McGraw Hill, latest edition.
- E. P. Popov, Engineering Mechanics of Solids, Prentice Hall, 2nd edition.