A popular text in its first edition‎,‎ Mechanics of Solids and Structures serves as a course text for the senior/graduate ‎(‎fourth or fifth year‎)‎ courses/modules in the mechanics of solid/advanced strength of materials‎,‎ offered in aerospace‎,‎ civil‎,‎ engineering science‎,‎ and mechanical engineering departments‎.‎ Now‎,‎ Mechanics of Solid and Structure‎,‎ Second Edition presents the latest developments in computational methods that have revolutionized the field‎,‎ while retaining all of the basic principles and foundational information needed for mastering advanced engineering mechanics‎.‎ Key changes to the second edition include full‎-color illustrations throughout‎,‎ web‎-based computational material‎,‎ and the addition of a new chapter on the energy methods of structural mechanics‎.‎ Using authoritative‎,‎ yet accessible language‎,‎ the authors explain the construction of expressions for both total potential energy and complementary potential energy associated with structures‎.‎They explore how the principles of minimal total potential ene‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎