Homework will be assigned every week and will be collected at the
beginning of class on Wednesday. This is a problems course, and you are
going to do problems. However, you can work in groups on the homework. I
want you to learn the material.
| Date |
Topic |
Reading |
Aug. 28 -
Sept. 1 |
Syllabus & grading; Introduction and
overview of normal stress and strain; Mechanical properties; Elasticity,
plasticity, and creep; Linear elasticity, Hooke's Law, Poisson's ratio;
| Read 1.1 - 1.5
|
Sept. 4 -
Sept. 8 |
Shear stress and strain; Allowable stresses and allowable loads; Design
for axial loads and direct shear. Introduction; Changes in length of
axially loaded members. Stresses through variable shapes.
|
Read 1.6 - 1.8
Read 2.1 - 2.2
|
Sept. 11 -
Sept. 15 |
Changes in length of nonuniform bars; Statically indeterminate structures;
Thermal effects; Stress on inclined sections.
|
Read 2.3 - 2.6
|
Sept. 18 -
Sept. 22 |
Introduction; Torsional deformation of a circular bar; Circular bars of
linearly elastic material; Nonuniform torsion; Stresses and strain in
pure shear.
|
Read 3.1 - 3.5
|
Sept. 25 -
Sept. 29 |
Relationship between moduli of elasticity E and G;
Transmission of power by circular shafts; Statically indeterminate
torsional members. Introduction; Type of beams loads and reactions.
|
Read 3.6 - 3.8
Read 4.1 - 4.2
|
Oct. 2 -
Oct. 6 |
Shear forces and bending
moments; Relationships between loads, shear forces, and bending moments;
Singularity functions; Shear-force and bending moment diagrams.
|
Read 4.3 - 4.4
|
Oct. 9 -
Oct. 13 |
Finding the centroid and moment of inertia for built-up sections;
Pure bending and nonuniform bending; Curvature of a beam; Longitudinal
strains in beams; Normal stress in beams; Design of beams for bending
stresses. EXAM 1
|
Read 5.1 - 5.6
|
Oct. 16 -
Oct. 20 |
Shear stresses in beam of rectangular cross-section;
Shear stresses in beams of circular cross-section; Shear stresses in the
webs of beams with flanges; Built-up beams and shear flow. Connections and
welds.
|
Read 5.8 - 5.11
|
Oct. 23 -
Oct. 27 |
Introduction; Principle stresses and Mohr's circle for plane stress;
Hooke's law for plane stress;
|
Read 7.1 - 7.3
|
Oct. 30 -
Nov. 3 |
Using Mohr's circle for plane strain and converting from stress and strain.
Introduction; Spherical pressure vessels; Cylindrical pressure vessels.
|
Read 7.4 - 7.5
Read 8.1 - 8.3
|
Nov. 6 -
Nov. 10 |
Maximum stresses in beams; Combined loadings; Introduction; Differential
equations of the deflected curve.
|
Read 8.4 - 8.5
Read 9.1 - 9.3
|
Nov. 13 -
Nov. 17 |
Using
singularity functions and superposition to find the deflection.
Introduction; Types of statically indeterminate beams; Analysis by the
differential equations of the deflection curve.
|
Read 9.5
Read 10.1 - 10.3
|
Nov. 20 -
Nov. 24 |
Method of superposition for statically indeterminate beams. EXAM 2
|
Read 10.4
|
Nov. 27 -
Dec. 1 |
Introduction; Buckling and
stability; Columns and pinned ends; Columns with other support conditions.
|
Read 11.1 - 11.4
|
Dec. 4 -
Dec. |
Final Review
|
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