General Questions of Strength of Materials

Download or read book General Questions of Strength of Materials written by Shivendra Nandan and published by TSG Publications. This book was released on with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strength of materials, also called mechanics of materials, deals with the behavior of solid objects subject to stresses and strains. The theory began with the consideration of the behavior of one and two dimensional members of structures, whose states of stress can be approximated as two dimensional, and was then generalized to three dimensions to develop a more complete theory of the elastic and plastic behavior of materials.