What a wonderful book this is. As a mechanical engineering graduate I still had so many questions in my mind regarding this topic. This book had answered all of them. No one recommended me this book but I was just randomly going through several mechanics of material books and found this read the description on amazon and wanted to read the sample and realised how good this book is. Everything explained in simple terms. I would recommend adding more pictures and diagrams to further visualise the content explained in word. I also would recommend to organise the topic in way that a new comer to this topic will not be confused and it has to be organised through the eyes of a new commers to the topic which would be an ideal text book for universities and etc. This can include a brief introduction of all different types of forces and related stresses develed due to them all together before the detailed discussion on them