This book is an endeavour to present a compre-hensive study of the subject which is taught to students of all branches of engi-neering courses at degree level.
Each article in a chapter is followed by one or many examples. Examples are followed by exercises and if a student solves these exercises, then he has understood the text clearly. Comprehensive study of topics like Principal Stress, SF and BM Diagrams, Struts and Columns, Three Dimensional Stresses, Curved Bars, Unsymmetrical Bending and Strain Energy Methods.