CS2001 - Engineering Strength of Materials

Review of shear force and bending moment diagrams. Force systems. Pure bending of elastic beams; composite beams, unsymmetrical sections. Shearing stresses in beams; shear flow, shear centre. Analysis of plane stress and plane strain; Hookes law, stress transformations, Mohrs circle. Torsion for circular sections. Compound stresses. Bending deflection; double integration, moment area methods. Column behaviour, Euler load, secant formula, short and long columns, slenderness ratio, effective length. Introduction to theories of failure.

Learning Outcomes

• determine stresses and strains in structural members subjected to axial, bending and torsional forces;
• define relationships between member forces, loads, deformations and material stresses and strains;
• describe various testing methods to determine various mechanical properties of materials;
• analyse simply supported beams and columns subjected to various types of loadings;
• calculate deflections in simply supported beams using various methods;
• carry out stress/strain/inertia transformation with respect to any mutually perpendicular axes using the equations or Mohr's circles;
• demonstrate effective written communication skills through laboratory reports.

Subject Assessment

• end of semester exam (50%)
• other exams (25%)
• assignments (12%)
• practicals (13%).

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