Syllabus

Updated 8/31/98 9:05


Eric W. Sandt
Civil Engineering Building Rm. 207
Phone: (409) 458-4780 (W)
e-sandt@tamu.edu


General Information


Office Hours: 10:00-11:00am MWF 2:00-3:00pm MWF


Percentage of Final Grade
Homework 30 %
Exam 1 20 %
Exam 2 20 %
Final 30 %


Homework will be assigned every week and will be collected at the beginning of class on Monday. 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.


The exams will be held on Tuesday nights from 7:00pm-8:30pm, October 6 and November 17. They are closed book, and you will be provided with a formula sheet. They are general 4 to 5 problems. The final will be comprehensive.



Textbook: Hibbeler,R.C., Mechanics of Materials , Prentice Hall



Outline


Date Lecture Topic Reading
31 Aug.[1] Equilibrium of Deformable Bodies ; Stress Read 1.1-1.3
2 Sept.[2] Ave. Normal Stresses; Ave. Shear Stress and Allowable Stress Read 1.4-1.5
4 Sept.[3] Allowable Stress; Design of Simple Connections Read 1.6-1.7
7 Sept.[4] Deformation; Strain Read 2
9 Sept.[5] Material Properties Read 3.1- 3.2
11 Sept.[6] Material Properties continued Read 3.3-3.4
14 Sept.[7] Stress-Strain Behavior; Hooke's Law Read 3.5-3.7
16 Sept.[8] Poisson's Ratio; Saint-Venant's Principle Read 4.1
18 Sept.[9] Elastic Deformation of Axially loaded members Read 4.2
21 Sept.[10] Principle of Superposition; Statically Indeterminate Members Read 4.3-4.4
23 Sept.[11] Temperature Problems; Examples
25 Sept.[12] Torsion Read 5.1
28 Sept.[13] Torsion Formula Power Transmissions Read 5.2-5.3
30 Sept.[14] Statically Indeterminate Torque Loaded Members Read 5.4
2 Oct.[15] Examples
5 Oct.[16] Centroid of an area; Moment of inertia Read Appendix A
7 Oct.[17] Shear and Bending Moments Read 6.1
9 Oct.[18] Examples
12 Oct.[19] Bending Deformation of Straight members Read 6.3
14 Oct.[20] Flexure Formula Read 6.4
16 Oct.[21] Examples
19 Oct.[22] Shear in straight members; Shear Formula Read 7.1-7.2
21 Oct.[23] Shear Stress in Beams Read 7.3
23 Oct.[24] Examples
26 Oct.[25] Thin walled Vessel Read 8.1
28 Oct.[26]Combined Loading Read 8.2
30 Oct.[27] Examples
2 Nov.[28] Plane Stress Transformation; Equations of Plane Stress Work Prob. Read 9.1-9.3
4 Nov.[29] Mohr's Circle; Absolute Maximum Shear Stress Read 9.4-9.5
6 Nov.[30] Examples
9 Nov.[31] Elastic Curve; Slope and Displacement by Integration Read 12.1-12.2
11 Nov.[32] Method of Superposition Read 12.5
11 Nov.[33] Examples
13 Nov.[34] Statically Indeterminate Beams and Shafts Read 12.6
16 Nov.[35] Indeterminate Beams and Shafts - Integration technique Read 12.7
18 Nov.[36] Examples
20 Nov.[37] Statically Indeterminate Beams and Shafts - Superposition Read 12.9
23 Nov.[38] Examples
25 Nov.[39] Examples
30 Nov.[40] Critical Load; Ideal Column Read 13.1-13.2
2 Dec.[41] Various types of columns Read 13.3
4 Dec.[42] Examples
7 Dec.[43] Review
9 Dec.[44] Review