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Apr 18, 2024
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ME 207 - Mechanics of Materials3 lecture hours 2 lab hours 4 credits
Course Description
This is the first course in the mechanics of deformable bodies. Topics include stresses and strains produced by axial loading, torsion, and bending; elastic deflections of beams; effects of combined loading; and buckling of slender columns. Laboratory topics will reinforce lecture material. Not for credit for students who have credit in either AE 201 or AE 2011. (prereq: ME 205 or ME 255, MA 231 or MA 226)
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Determine stresses resulting from axial, bending, torsion, and transverse loading
- Apply Hooke’s Law for materials with linear stress-strain behavior
- Construct shear and bending moment diagrams for statically indeterminate structures
- Determine the stress state in a member resulting from combinations of loads
- Know how to find principal stresses for a state of plane stress
- Determine beam deflections by integrating the moment equation
- Be familiar with the Euler buckling load for columns of various end conditions
Prerequisites by Topic
- Statics
- Integral and differential calculus
Course Topics
- Review of statics, reactions, internal loads
- Concept of stress and strain
- Mechanical properties of materials
- Axial loading
- Stress concentrations
- Torsion
- Shear and moment diagrams
- Bending stresses
- Transverse shear
- Combined loads
- Stress and strain transformations, including Mohr’s circle and strain rosettes
- Principal stresses
- Beam deflections
Laboratory Topics
- Specimen in tension or compression
- Uniaxial loading in a truss
- Shear of joined sections
- Combined stresses
- Stresses in beams
- Beam deflection
- Stress-strain curve
Coordinator
Robert Rizza
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