Fundamental notions -- Stress -- Strain -- Introduction to mechanical properties of solids -- One-dimensional problems -- Generalized Hooke's law and introduction to energy methods -- Plane stress -- Plane strain -- Failure criteria -- Section forces in beams -- Stresses in beams -- Deflection of beams -- *Singularity functions -- Torsion -- Three-dimensional stress at properties at a point -- Three-dimensional strain relations at a point -- Introduction to elastic stability -- *Energy methods -- *Introduction to finite elements -- Appendix A : Deformation of isotropic materials -- Appendix B : Proof using tensor notation that strain is a second-order tensor -- Appendix C : A note on the Maxwell-Bettl theorem -- Appendix D : Tables -- Appendix E : Answers to problems