# Structural Mechanics

- By: Tomasz Wierzbicki
- Publisher: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Source: [LibreTexts](https://eng.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Mechanical_Engineering/Structural_Mechanics_(Wierzbicki))
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)
- Read at LibreTexts: https://eng.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Mechanical_Engineering/Structural_Mechanics_(Wierzbicki)
- PDF: https://downloads.libretexts.org/api/v1/download/eng-21465/pdf

This text covers the fundamental concepts of structural mechanics with applications to marine, civil, and mechanical structures. Topics include analysis of small deflections of beams, moderately large deflections of beams, columns, cables, and shafts; elastic and plastic buckling of columns, thin walled sections and plates; exact and approximate methods; energy methods; principle of virtual work; introduction to failure analysis of structures.