Advanced Mechanics of Solids : analysis of stress, analysis of strain, stress strain relations for linearly elastic solids, theories of failure or yield criteria and introduction to ideally plastic solid, energy methods, rending of beams, torsion, axisymmetric problems, thermal stresses, elastic stability, beam columns, general treatment of column stability problems, energy methods for buckling problems, introduction to composite materials, introduction to stress concentration and fracture mechanics, design consideration, first theorem of castigliano, change in direction of a linear element.