Introduction to this webpage

This website has been elaborated for the lecturing efforts on Strength of Materials held in connection with the undergraduate courses on a variety of engineering disciplines in the School of Civil Engineering, Transportation, Mechanical Engineering and Energy & Environment at the Southeast University. The course is typically addressed at 3rd or 4th semester undergraduate students.

Most of the lecture notes have to a moderate extent been based on its Chinese version developed by a number of instructors in the Department of Engineering Mechanics at the Southeast University but have been substantively revised and translated by the authors to better fulfill the requirements of the course. All of these lecture notes as well as a number of extra reference materials focusing on the subject matter are made available on-line through this website. The authors provide these materials with the primary intention of making them accessible electronically to students through web searches and for browsing and study on computers. In any event, authors of individual materials retain the ownership of the copyright. Hard-copy printing of textbooks, in particular, is subjected to the same copyright rules as they would be for a printed book.

This website is careful to address the interests and background of the various engineering students at the Southeast University. It is divided into fourteen modules, each pertaining to a specific purpose. The content is organized as follows, in the order as they appear on the navigation pane.

Please refer to the PDF file below for a thorough description of the content that will be covered in this course.