Concepts of states of stress and strain. Analysis of three dimensional    stresses and strains, equations of equilibrium, generalized Hookes law, Plane    elastic problems in cartesian and polar coordinates, axisymmetric problems,    torsion, solutions of problems using elasticity theory, anisotropic    elasticity, thermoelasticity, contact problems, energy and variational    principles and elastic stability.
         
         
      Recommended Books:
      
        - Theory of Elasticity- S.    Timoshenko and J.N. Goodier (McGraw Hill)
 
        - Elasticity in engineering mechanics- Arthur    Peter Boresi, Ken Pin Chong (Wiley)
 
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