Homework will be assigned every week and will be collected at the
beginning of class on Tuesday. 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 |
May 29 -
June 2 |
Syllabus & grading; Introduction and
overview of normal stress and strain; Mechanical properties; Elasticity,
plasticity, and creep; Linear elasticity, Hooke's Law, Poisson's ratio
Shear stress and strain; Allowable stresses and allowable loads; Design
for axial loads and direct shear.
| Read 1.1 - 1.8
|
June 5 -
June 9 |
Introduction; Changes in length of axially loaded members. Changes in
length of nonuniform bars; Statically indeterminate structures; Thermal
effects; Stress on inclined sections.
|
Read 2.1 - 2.6
|
June 12 -
June 16 |
Introduction; Torsional deformation of a circular bar; Circular bars of
linearly elastic material; Nonuniform torsion; Stresses and strain in
pure shear. Relationship between moduli of elasticity E and G;
Transmission of power by circular shafts; Statically indeterminate
torsional members.
|
Read 3.1 - 3.8
|
June 19 -
June 23 |
Introduction; Type of beams loads and reactions. Shear forces and bending
moments; Relationships between loads, shear forces, and bending moments;
Singularity functions; Shear-force and bending moment diagrams.
|
Read 4.1 - 4.4
|
June 26 -
June 30 |
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 - 5.8
|
July 5 -
July 7 |
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
|
July 10 -
July 14 |
Introduction; Principle stresses and Mohr's circle for plane stress;
Hooke's law for plane stress; Using Mohr's circle for plane strain and
converting from stress and strain.
|
Read 7.1 - 7.5
|
July 17 -
July 21 |
Introduction; Spherical pressure vessels; Cylindrical pressure vessels.
Maximum stresses in beams; Combined loadings
|
Read 8.1 - 8.5
|
July 24 -
July 28 |
Introduction; Differential equations of the deflected curve. Using
singularity functions and superposition to find the deflection.
Introduction; Types of statically indeterminate beams; Analysis by the
differential equations of the deflection curve. Method of superposition
for statically indeterminate beams. EXAM 2
|
Read 9.1 - 9.5
Read 10.1 - 10.4
|
July 31 -
Aug. 4 |
Introduction; Buckling and
stability; Columns and pinned ends; Columns with other support conditions.
|
Read 11.1 - 11.4
|
| Aug 7 |
Review for Final |
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