Section 10 of 21
Mechanics of Materials
Stress, strain, torsion, beams, and columns
- p129-141page range
- 13pages long
- 11subsections
- 21drill items
What the section holds
Uniaxial stress-strain behaviour and its definitions, thermal deformations, cylindrical pressure vessels, general stress and strain including transformation, torsion and torsional strain, beams, columns, elastic strain energy, and tabulated material properties.
Why it matters for your exam
Examined on Civil, Mechanical and Other Disciplines specifications, where Other Disciplines calls it strength of materials. The beam deflection and column buckling material here is reached from the structural design pages constantly.
How to navigate it
The beam tables and the column material are at the end of the section, after torsion. The material properties table is the very last thing in it. Practice landing on that table directly, since it is what you need for a modulus of elasticity.
Search terms that land here
mohr's circle | beam deflection | column buckling | torsion | pressure vessel
Subsections, in handbook order
These are the headings the handbook itself uses. The page number beside each is where it begins.
- Definitionsp129
- Uniaxial Stress-Strainp129
- Cylindrical Pressure Vesselp130
- Thermal Deformationsp130
- Stress and Strainp131
- Torsionp133
- Torsional Strainp133
- Beamsp134
- Columnsp136
- Elastic Strain Energyp137
- Material Propertiesp137
Disciplines that use this section
Page numbers here are read from handbook version 10.5 (seventh printing, April 2025), which runs to 502 pages. NCEES revises the handbook and page numbers move with it, which is why the drill asks which section a topic lives in rather than which page. Check the version of your own copy, downloaded free from NCEES.