This book entitled “Strength of Materials” is designed to provide a strong foundation to the basic principles, concepts and application for the BE/B.Tech, students as per the latest syllabus of various Autonomous Institutions and Universities.

The book has been designed in a simple and lucid manner. All the chapters are presented in a crisp and clear style with a lot of numerical examples and illustrative sketches to enable the students to understand the concept and solve the problems.

“Strength of Materials” deals with the study of the effect of forces and moments on the deformation of a body. It is developed in the SI units adopting international notation and conventions.

The book contains chapters titled as Stress and Strains, Bending Moment and Shear Force Diagrams, Bending of Beams, Deflection of Beams, Torsion and Springs, Columns, Thin and Thick Cylinders and Unsymmetrical Bending of Beams.

I am confident that the reader of this book can understand and practice the strength of materials in all their endeavors in the field of Engineering.