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 |
Jan. 18 -
Jan. 21 |
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
|
Jan. 24 -
Jan. 28 |
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
|
Jan. 31 -
Feb. 4 |
Changes in length of nonuniform
bars; Statically indeterminate structures; Thermal effects; Stress on
inclined sections.
|
Read 2.3 - 2.6
|
Feb. 7 -
Feb. 11 |
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
|
Feb. 14 -
Feb. 18 |
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
|
Feb. 21 -
Feb. 25 |
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
|
Feb. 28 -
Mar. 3 |
Introduction; Pure bending and
nonuniform bending; Curvature of a beam; Longitudinal strains in beams;
Normal stress in beams; Design of beams for bending stresses.
|
Read 5.1 - 5.6
|
Mar. 6 -
Mar. 10 |
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.
|
Read 5.8 - 5.11
|
Mar. 13 -
Mar. 17 |
Spring Break
|
|
Mar. 20 -
Mar. 24 |
Introduction; Principle stresses and
maximum shear stress.
|
Read 7.1 - 7.3
|
Mar. 27 -
Mar. 31 |
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
|
Apr. 3 -
Apr. 7 |
Maximum stresses in beams;
Combined loadings
Introduction; Differential equations of the deflected
curve.
|
Read 8.4 - 8.5
Read 9.1 - 9.3
|
Apr. 10 -
Apr. 14 |
Method of superposition
Introdution; Types of statically indeterminate beams; Analysis by the
differential equations of the deflection curve.
|
Read 9.5
Read 10.1 - 10.3
|
Apr. 17 -
Apr. 21 |
Method of superposition for
statically indeterminate beams.
|
Read 10.4
|
Apr. 24 -
Apr. 28 |
Introduction; Buckling and
stability; Columns and pinned ends; Columns with other support conditions.
|
Read 11.1 - 11.4
|
| May 2 |
Review for Final |
|