ME-227 MECHANICS OF MATERIALS-I
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COURSE CONTENT
- Introduction to Stress & Strain: Concept of Stress, Stresses in Structural Members, Stresses in Analysis and Design of Structural and Machine Members, Average Normal Stress in Axially Loaded Members, Average Shear Stress, Bearing Stress in Connections, Stresses on Oblique Plane in Axially Loaded Members, Stress Under General Loading Conditions, Stress Components, Factor of Safety, Deformations in Structural Members, Normal & Shear Strain.
- Stress-Strain Relationship: ASTM Standards of Tensile Tests, Stress-Strain Diagram, True Stress and True Strain, Modulus of Elasticity, Elastic versus Plastic Behavior of a Material, Strain Energy, Fracture Toughness, Hooke’s Law, Poisson’s Ratio, Shear Stress-Strain Diagram, Modulus of Rigidity, Relation among E, υ, and G, Dilatation, Bulk Modulus, Stress-Strain Relationships for Composites, Materials Failure due to Fatigue and Creep.
- Structural Members Subjected to Axial Loadings: Saint-Venant’s Principle, Elastic Deformation of Axially Loaded Members, Superposition Principle, Statically Determinate & Indeterminate Axially Loaded Members, Force Method Analysis of Axially Loaded Members, Problems Involving Temperature Changes, Thermal Stresses & Strains, Stress Concentrations, Inelastic Axial Deformations, Residual Stresses.
- Theory of Torsion: Torsional Deformation of a Circular Shaft, Power Transmission, Angle of Twist, Statically Indeterminate Shafts, Solid Noncircular Shafts, Thin-Walled Tubes Having Closed Cross Sections, Stress Concentration, Inelastic Torsion, Residual Stress
- Design of Beams for Bending: Shear and Bending-Moment Diagrams, Relations among Load, Shear, and Bending Moment, Graphical Method for Constructing Shear and Moment Diagrams, Bending Deformation of a Straight Member, The Flexure Formula, Unsymmetric Bending, Composite Beams, Shear on the Horizontal Face of a Beam Element, Determination of the Shearing Stresses in a Beam, The Shear Formula, Shearing Stresses in Thin-Walled Members – Shear Center
- Buckling of Columns: Stability of Structures, Critical Load, Euler’s Formula for Pin-Ended Columns, Extension of Euler’s Formula to Columns with Various Supports, Inelastic Buckling.
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Text Book(s)
- Ferdinand P. Beer, Russell Johnston, John DeWolf, David Mazurek, “Mechanics of Materials”, 7th edition, McGraw-Hill, 2024.
- Russell Hibbeler, “Mechanics of Materials”, 10th edition. Pearson, 2022.
Reference Book(s)
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Berry Goodono, Gere, J. M., “Mechanics of Materials”, 8th Edition, Cengage Learning, 2012.
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