This book is intended to benefit different segments of target audience—right from under-graduate and post-graduate students and teachers of Mechanical Engineering, in Universities and Engineering Colleges across India, practicing professionals, Design Engineers and Engineering Consultants working in Industries and Consulting organizations. All the above aspects have together made this book unique in several aspects. From a Mechanical Engineering Student’s angle, this book covers the syllabus prescribed by Indian Universities extensively, with theory, practical applications of the theory, illustrated with several worked out examples and problems, along with ‘chapter wise review questions’ taken from standard university question papers. The engineering application of the theories along with the case study, solved by the author himself, present the inter-disciplinary nature of engineering problems and solutions, in the subject of ‘Strength of Materials’. The book strives to relate well and establish a good connect among various fields of study like Materials, Design, Engineering Tables, Design Codes, Design Cycle, Role of Analysis, Theory of Elasticity, Finite Element Methods, Failure theory, Experimental techniques and Product Engineering. The author sincerely hopes that the book will be found immensely beneficial and will be well received by its intended target audience—the students and teachers of Mechanical Engineering, as well as practicing Design Engineers and Consultants.