ESC-213 Strength of Materials
A study of the basic concepts of strength of materials; stress and strain in external loading, shear and torsion; centroids and moments of inertia; shear, moment, and stress in beams; load, shear, and moment diagrams; design and deflection of beams (statically determinate and indeterminate); combined stresses; welded, bolted and riveted joints.
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Department
Science and Technology
Course Description
A study of the basic concepts of strength of materials; stress and strain in external loading, shear and torsion; centroids and moments of inertia; shear, moment, and stress in beams; load, shear, and moment diagrams; design and deflection of beams (statically determinate and indeterminate); combined stresses; welded, bolted and riveted joints.
Credit Hours
3Course Learning Outcomes
- Identify the fundamental modes of deformation: axial, torsional, bending.
- Calculate stresses and strains caused by fundamental modes of deformation.
- Apply methods of stress and strain analysis to solve the reaction forces in a statically indeterminate structure.
Topic Outline
- 1. Introduction, forces and stresses, axial loading, and normal stress
- 2. Shearing stress and application to the analysis of simple structures
- 3. Stress on an oblique plane under axial loading, and components of stress
- 4. Ultimate and allowable stress, and factor of safety
- 5. Normal strain under axial loading and the stress-strain diagram
- 6. Hooke's law, modulus of elasticity, elastic vs. plastic deformation, and fatigue
- 7. Deformations of members under axial loading
- 8. Tensile testing experiment
- 9. Statically indeterminate problems
- 10. Problems involving temperature changes
- 11. Poisson's ratio
- 12. Generalized Hooke's law for multiaxial loading, dilatation, and bulk modulus
- 13. Shearing strain and shear modulus
- 14. Saint-Venant's principle and stress concentrations
- 15. Plastic deformations
- 16. Stresses and deformations in a circular shaft
- 17. Statically indeterminate shafts
- 18. Stresses and deformations in a symmetric member in pure bending
- 19. Bending of members made of several materials
- 20. Eccentric axial loading in a plane of symmetry
- 21. Unsymmetric bending
- 22. General case of eccentric loading
- 23. Transverse loading of prismatic members and shear on a horizontal plane
- 24. Stresses under combined loadings
- 25. Transformation of plane stress, principal stresses, and maximum shearing stress
- 26. Determination of principal stresses and Mohr's circle
- 27. Design of prismatic beams, and shear and bending moment diagrams
- 28. Relations among load, shear, and bending moment
- 29. Deformation of a beam under transverse loading
- 30. Equation of the elastic curve
- 31. Statically indeterminate beams