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May 03, 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. (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 (2 classes)
• Concept of stress and strain (5 classes)
• Mechanical properties of materials (3 classes)
• Axial loading (3 classes)
• Stress concentrations (1 class)
• Torsion (3 classes)
• Shear and moment diagrams (3 classes)
• Bending stresses (3 classes)
• Transverse shear (3 classes)
• Combined loads (2 classes)
• Stress and strain transformations, including Mohr’s circle and strain rosettes (4 classes)
• Principal stresses (2 classes)
• Beam deflections (3 classes)
• Testing (3 classes)
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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