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ME 2004 - Mechanics of Materials I

4 lecture hours 0 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. (prereq: ME 2002  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
  • Determine the stress state in a member resulting from combinations of loads
  • Determine principal stresses for a state of plane stress
  • Determine beam deflections
  • Be familiar with the Euler buckling load for columns of various end conditions

Prerequisites by Topic
  • Statics
  • Integral calculus
  • Differential calculus

Course Topics
  • Review of statics, reactions, and internal loads, basic axial stress and 1D Hooke’s Law
  • Axial stress concentrations, axial deformation, and mechanical properties of materials
  • Poisson’s ratio, Shear stress and strain, 3D Hooke’s Law, and Plane stress and Strain
  • Stress on an inclined surface and stress transformation
  • Mohr’s circle for plane stress principle stresses, maximum shearing stresses, principle planes, and planes of maximum shear
  • Statically indeterminate axial members, torsion, angle of twist, and power transmission
  • Simple bending (flexural formula), trasnverse shear, built-up sections (shear flow)
  • Combined loading
  • Beam deflection
  • Buckling, buckling stress, slenderness ratio, and effective length

Coordinator
Michael Sracic



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