Tensile Force – Compressive Force – Shear Force – Stress – Strain – Elasticity, Limit Of – Proportionality And Elastic Limit – Hooke’s Law – Ductility, Brittleness – And Malleability – Modulus Of Rigidity – Thermal Strain – Compound Bars – Tensile Testing – The Tensile Test – Worked Problems – On Tensile Testing – Further Worked Problems – On Tensile Testing – Forces Acting At A Point – Scalar And Vector Quantities – Centre Of Gravity And Equilibrium – Forces – The Resultant Of – Two Coplanar Forces – Triangle Of Forces Method – The Parallelogram – Of Forces Method – Resultant Of Coplanar – Forces By Calculation – Resultant Of More Than – Two Coplanar Forces – Coplanar Forces In Equilibrium – Resolution Of Forces – Summary – Forces In Structures – Introduction – Worked Problems On Mechanisms – And Pinjointed Trusses – Graphical Method .