Notation for stress and displacement -- Strains and their relation to displacements -- Stress-strain relations -- Equilibrium and Compatibility -- Equilibrium equations -- Compatibility equations -- Equilibrium equations for displacements -- Two-Dimensional Problems -- Plane Strain and Plane Stress -- Plane strain -- Plane stress -- Stress Function Formulation -- The concept of a scalar stress function -- Choice of a suitable form -- The Airy stress function -- The governing equation -- Problems in Rectangular Coordinates -- Biharmonic polynomial functions -- Rectangular beam problems -- Series and transform solutions -- End Effects -- Decaying solutions -- The corrective solution -- Other Saint-Venant problems -- Body Forces -- Stress function formulation -- Particular cases -- Solution for the stress function -- Rotational acceleration -- Problems in Polar Coordinates -- Expressions for stress components -- Strain components -- Fourier series expansion -- The Michell solution -- Calculation of Displacements -- The cantilever with an end load -- The circular hole -- Displacements for the Michell solution -- Curved Beam Problems -- Loading at the ends -- Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions -- The inhomogeneous problem -- Wedge Problems -- Power law tractions -- Williams' asymptotic method -- General loading of the faces -- Plane Contact Problems -- Self-similarity -- The Flamant Solution -- The half-plane -- Distributed normal tractions -- Frictionless contact problems -- Problems with two deformable bodies.