Having successfully completed this course, the student will be able to:

• Understand the stress and strain concept.
• Understand the stress-strain relations.
• Associate basic concepts and relations in elasticity.
• Simplify 3D elastic relations for special cases.
• Understand nonlinear behaviour.
• Solve differential equations for different boundary and loading conditions.
• Understand beam behaviour under general loading.
• Understand torsion of noncircular sections.
• Implement energy methods.
• Understand elastic stability of columns.
• Analyse plastic behaviour of materials.