| Date |
Topic |
Reading |
| Aug. 30 - Sept. 3 | Syllabus & Grading; Introduction and
overview Normal Stress and Strain; Mechanical Properties; Elasticity,
Plasticity, and creep; Linear Elasticity, Hooke's Law Poisson's Ratio
| Read 1.1-1.5 |
| Sept. 6 - Sept. 10 | Shear Stress and Strain; Allowable
Stresses and Allowable loads; Design for Axial Loads and Direct Shear;
Introduction; Changes in Length of Axially loaded members. |
Read 1.6-1.8
Read 2.1 2.2
|
| Sept. 13 - Sept. 17 | Changes in Length of Nonuniform Bars;
Statically Indeterminate Structures; Thermal Effects; Stress on Inclined
Sections |
Read 2.3-2.6
|
| Sept. 20 - Sept. 24 | Introduction; Torsional Deformation of
a Circular Bar; Circular Bars of Linearly Elastic Materials; Nonuniform
Torsion; Stresses and Strain in Pure Shear |
Read 3.1-3.5
|
| Sept. 27 - Oct. 1 | Relationship Between Moduli of Elasticity
E and G; Transmission of Power by Circular Shafts; Statically Indeterminate
Torsional Members
Introduction; Types of Beams Loads and Reactions |
Read 3.6-3.8
Read 4.1-4.2
|
| Oct. 4 - Oct. 8 | 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. 11 - Oct. 15 | Introduction; Pure Bending and Nonuniform
Bending; Curvature of a Beam; Longitudinal Strains in Beams; Normal Stresses
in Beams; Design of Beams for Bending Stresses |
Read 5.1-5.6
|
| Oct. 18 - Oct. 22 | Shear Stresses in Beams 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 |
Read 5.8-5.11
|
| Oct. 25 - Oct. 29 | Introduction; Plane Stress; Principal
Stresses and Maximum Shear Stress; |
Read 7.1-7.3
|
| Nov. 1 - Nov. 5 | Mohr's Circle for Plane Stress; Hooke's Law
for Plane Stress
Introduction; Spherical Pressure Vessels; Cylindrical
Pressure Vessels |
Read 7.4-7.5
Read 8.1-8.3
|
| Nov. 8 - Nov. 12 | Maximum Stresses in Beams; Combined Loadings
Introduction; Differential Equations of the Deflected Curve |
Read 8.4-8.5
Read 9.1-9.3
|
| Nov. 15 - Nov. 19 | Method of Superposition
Introduction;
Types of Statically Indeterminate Beams; Analysis by the Differential Equations
of the Deflection Curve |
Read 9.5
Read 10.1-10.3
|
| Nov. 22 - Nov. 24 | Method of Superposition |
Read 10.4
|
| Nov. 29 - Dec. 3 | Introduction; Buckling and Stability;
Columns with Pinned Ends; Columns with other Support Conditions |
Read 11.1-11.4
|
| Dec. 6 | Review for Final |
|