This book is designed to give a good foundation in Mechanics of Solids after an introductory course on Strength of Materials. This edition has been thoroughly revised and enlarged to make it a comprehensive text on the mechanics of deformable solids. Exhaustive treatment of the theories of failure including Mohr’s theory, energy methods including theorems of Castigliano, Virtual work, Kirchoff, Menabrea, and Engesser are included.

Salient Features :

Explains the state of stress at a point as a totality concept i.e. as a totality of all stress vectors on every possible plane at a point.

• Generalisation of energy theorems to analyse non-Hookean structures.


• Introduces the concept of warping function for the torsion analysis of non-circular bars.


• Two new chapters :


• Thermal Stresses -- covering stress analysis of disks, cylinders, straight and curved beams.


• Introduction to Mechanics of Composites -- covering stress analysis and strength theories of composites.


• 259 illustrations, 104 worked examples, and 127 exercise problems with answers.


• Appendices providing important formulae and equations, units and conversion tables, and mechanical properties of various materials.