Mechanics of Materials (MOM) is a key sophomore/junior level course in many engineering majors including civil, mechanical, aerospace, biomedical, mining, and optical engineering. It is typically offered as a three-unit course over the period of one semester. Over my many years of experience in teaching MOM and many courses relevant to MOM, I have found that some of the most popular MOM books suffer from the following drawbacks in connection to student learning: They provide only limited resources to students requiring further assistance in comprehending the material. If, for example, a student is unable to understand a certain concept or chapter, even after going to class and studying the textbook, the only alternative is visiting the instructor, or external tutoring, both of which are often difficult or inconvenient. Some books that offer supplements such as videos and web-based aids have the drawback that the student has to "disengage" from the book and visit relevant resources with no direct connection to the book material Individual classroom lectures do not correspond, in detail, to specific sections and chapters in the textbook. Thus, students that do not comprehend the material during classroom time, often have difficulty in identifying what sections of the book were covered and what should be studied. This problem is particularly acute for students that stay behind in the course due to illness or other reasons.

Introduction

Uniaxial Stress

Uniaxial Strain

Bar Behavior

Shear

Shaft Behavior

Beams

Shear Flow

Stress Transformation

Generalized Hooke's Law and Plane Strain

Spherical/ Cylindrical Pressure

Combined Stress

Beam Deflections and Statically Indeterminate Beam

Columns

Course Review

APPENDICES

George Frantziskonis received his Civil Engineering degree from the Aristotle University, Greece and his doctorate in Engineering Mechanics from the University of Arizona. He has been a faculty member at the University of Arizona for over twenty years. He is a registered professional engineer in the State of Arizona and in the European Union state members. He has taught numerous courses in the broad areas of engineering mechanics, general engineering, and engineering design. He has directed graduate students in engineering mechanics, civil engineering, and mechanical, aerospace engineering. His teaching interests and activities include contemporary multimedia course delivery methods tailored to classroom-based, distance-learning, and classes of large enrollment. Dr. Frantziskonis' areas of research interests and activities include multi and interdisciplinary multiscale modeling and simulation, material characterization and applications, probabilistic and multiscale material description and applications to safety and reliability, behavior of materials at nano-scale, reaction- diffusion and reactive flow problems. He has published extensively in journals in the areas of mechanics, civil engineering, materials science and engineering, physics, computational physics, and chemical engineering; his work has been cited extensively. He holds a joint appointment with the Material Science and Engineering department and has worked as visiting professor in France, Norway, and Greece; he has also taught courses in France and Germany. He has received several awards including the Presidential Young Investigator and the Fulbright award.

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