ME 207 - Mechanics of Materials

• 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

• Statics, integral and differential calculus

• 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)

• Specimen in tension or compression
• Uniaxial loading in a truss
• Shear of joined sections
• Combined stresses
• Stresses in beams
• Beam deflection
• Stress-strain curve