AE 2011 - Mechanics of Materials I

• Determine normal stress and strain, and axial displacement, due to axial loadings. This includes axially determinate and indeterminate structures and thermal loadings
• Apply Hooke’s Law to determine deformations in elastic materials subjected to biaxial loading
• Determine shear stress and strain, and twist angle, due to torsional loadings. This includes torsionally determinate and indeterminate structures
• Determine normal stresses in beams due to bending moment. This includes ordinary and composite beams, and biaxial bending moment
• Determine normal stresses in structures with combined axial force and bending moment

• Concepts and applications of static equilibrium

• Introduction, normal stress and shear stress, allowable stress, design concepts (4 classes)
• Axial loading: Normal strain, thermal strain, axial indeterminacy (5 classes)
• Multiaxial loading, Poisson effect, Hooke’s law (3 classes)
• Concepts of fatigue and stress concentration (1 class)
• Torsion: shear stress and strain, angle of twist, torsional indeterminacy (4 classes)
• Review shear and moment in beams (2 classes)
• Moment of inertia (2 classes)
• Bending: normal stress, composite beams (5 classes)
• Combined axial + bending, biaxial bending (2 classes)
• Tests (2 classes)