--- title: Mechanics of Materials description: This subject analyzes the internal stresses, strains, and deformations of solid bodies under external loads. Learners will understand how to calculate structural strength, deflection, and stability to prevent mechanical failure. category: engineering subcategory: mechanical-engineering difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/mechanics-of-materials --- # Mechanics of Materials This subject analyzes the internal stresses, strains, and deformations of solid bodies under external loads. Learners will understand how to calculate structural strength, deflection, and stability to prevent mechanical failure. ## Available Resources 2 Books • 2 Courses • 3 Websites ## Websites ### 1. Engineer4Free A free tutorial site offering 57 videos on mechanics of materials, progressing from stress and strain through torsion, bending, beam deflection, and column buckling, plus linked practice problems and a downloadable summary sheet. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.engineer4free.com/mechanics-of-materials.html **Tags:** mechanics-of-materials, video-tutorials, free, stress-strain, beam-deflection ### 2. efunda.com/formulae/solid_mechanics eFunda's Solid Mechanics Formulae page is a concise reference of mechanics-of-materials formulas and quick calculators. It offers organized topics (stress/strain, bending, torsion, axial loading, deflection, and failure criteria) with practical equations for engineers. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://efunda.com/formulae/solid_mechanics **Tags:** websites, engineering-manufacturing, mechanical-engineering ### 3. bendingmomentdiagram.com BendingMomentDiagram.com provides interactive tools and tutorials to construct bending moment and shear force diagrams for beams, with step-by-step examples, formulas, and practice problems useful for learning mechanics of materials. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://bendingmomentdiagram.com **Tags:** websites, engineering-manufacturing, mechanical-engineering ## Courses ### 1. Mechanics of Materials (MIT 3.11) **Author:** David Roylance Mechanical properties of ceramics, metals and polymers and how processing and microstructure control them, plus continuum stress and strain, truss forces, shaft torsion and beam bending. Roylance's open textbook modules and problem sets prepare learners to design structures from a materials standpoint. **Difficulty:** Advanced | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/3-11-mechanics-of-materials-fall-1999/ **Tags:** mechanics-of-materials, stress-and-strain, beam-bending, torsion, mechanical-properties ### 2. Mechanics of Materials I: Fundamentals of Stress & Strain and Axial Loading **Author:** Wayne Whiteman Georgia Tech course introducing mechanics of materials through stress, strain, Hooke's law, material properties and axially loaded members, including statically indeterminate and thermal cases. Learners can calculate stresses and deformations in bars and assess them against failure limits. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/mechanics-1 **Tags:** mechanics-of-materials, stress-and-strain, axial-loading, solid-mechanics, structural-engineering ## Books ### 1. Mechanics of Materials **Author:** Yin-Nan Huang 課程介紹與教學目標 (About the course) 　　房屋為我們遮風避雨，讓我們安心工作、生活，而結構系統又是房屋的骨幹，讓房屋能站的又高、又直、又穩。你知道橫者為梁，直者為柱，但你知道在結構工程師的眼中，梁與柱有什麼其他的不同嗎？他們其中藏著什麼秘密，能支撐起整個結構？工程師要怎麼決定梁該有多深？柱該有多粗？該用矩形、圓形還是其他形狀？該用實心還是空心？在有地震的地方，設計上是否又有不一樣的考量？ 　　材料力學是通往上述問題解答關鍵的一步。在材料力學(一)裡，我們會由大家熟知的虎克定律開始，以蓋房子的重要材料「結構鋼」為例，深入探討「力量」與「變形」這兩個令結構工程師愛恨交加的物理量之間的關係。然後依序探討結構桿件受軸力（拉/壓）、受扭、受彎、受剪四大外力作用下，會在桿件內部產生怎樣的相對應變形與受力，並探討建築結構設計概念與提供桿件設計演算範例。 　　本課程是希望精通「鋼筋混凝土設計」、「鋼結構設計」、「木構造設計」者必備的先修課程，也為對「彈性力學」有興趣者，提供許多基礎知識與這些知識如何實際應用於工程設計。 主要授課對象為土木、建築相關從業人員與在學學生，其他包括工學院各科系同學或對材料力學有興趣的人士，也歡迎選修。 授課形式 (Course format) 　　本堂課將以影片的形式為主, 搭配課後作業及期末報告的形式來進行。 修課背景要求 (Recommended background) 　　靜力學 ( Statics ) **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/mechanics-of-materials-1 **Tags:** books, engineering-manufacturing, mechanical-engineering ### 2. Advanced Mechanics of Materials **Author:** Arthur P. Boresi, Omar M. Sidebottom A graduate-level textbook extending introductory mechanics of materials into elasticity theory, energy methods, contact stresses, thick-walled cylinders, and fracture and fatigue criteria, preparing students for advanced structural and mechanical design analysis. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0471883921?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, engineering-manufacturing, mechanical-engineering --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/mechanics-of-materials