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Strength of Materials is a paper which provides a base for studying about the properties and conditions of different materials used for industrial and commercial purposes. The different modules focus on different parts of the basic course covering the theoretical content of axial deformations, stresses (shear stress, bearing stress, thermal stress), torsion, bending, shear, shaft, thin-walled pressure vessels, moving loads, unsymmetrical beams, built-up (superimposed) beams, restrained beams, cantilever beams, floor framing, flanged bolt coupling and deflection of beams by double integration method, area moment method and method of superposition. The spotlight is on the basic concepts, assumptions, real life applications, misconceptions, relationships among moment, load and shear, stress and flexure formulae, stress-strain diagrams, load and moment diagrams and numerical computations at large. The chapter on torsion is extended to torsion in two-way slab, nut, thin-walled tube and helical spring that provides a summary of all the technical aspects of strain and compression.