At the end of this course, the student will:
- identify the concepts of stress, and factor of safety and their applications to the analysis and design of members.
- identify the concepts of strain, stress-strain diagrams, Poisson’s ratio and Generalized Hooke’s law for isotropic materials in order to solve problems involving temperature changes, in the form of statically determinate and indeterminate problems.
- analyze the stresses in statically determinate and indeterminate members subjected to torsional loadings, bending, asymmetric bending, and eccentric axial loading.
- analyze shear stress distribution in beams and in thin-walled members subjected to transverse loadings, and stresses under combined loading conditions.
- derive the stress transformation equations, and determine maximum shear stress, principal stresses and their planes, and the orientation of elements on which these stresses act, by using Mohr’s circle.
- use various methods to determine the equation of the elastic curve or the deflection and slope at specific points on beams and shafts, and employ deflection relations to determine the reactions of statically indeterminate beams.
- identify work and strain energy, apply energy methods and Castigliano’s theorem to determine deflection and slope of structural and mechanical components, and analyze buckling of columns subjected to centric load.
- analyze stress concentrations, stresses in thick-walled cylinders, shrink fits, curved members, contact stresses for spherical and cylindrical contacts
- identify static design criteria for ductile and brittle materials, and fatigue failure criteria for fluctuating stresses.