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ME 257 - Strength of Materials for Nonmechanical Engineers

3 lecture hours 2 lab hours 4 credits
Course Description
This course is for nonmechanical engineering students. The course provides non-MEs with a background in the area of strength of materials including what is required in the selection of materials to meet actual application requirements. Subjects include the stress-strain relationship, elasticity, as well as axial, torsional and shear stresses and deformations. Interrelated laboratory experiments reinforce the concepts presented in the lecture/analysis sessions. (prereq: ME 255 )
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  • Take a structural member, simply loaded, and find principle (max.) normal stresses, shear stresses and their angular locations within the member
  • Calculate beam deflections and deformation angles under various lateral loadings using the principle superposition
  • Be familiar with various tests used in industry to determine material properties, as well as being able to utilize the test outputs

Prerequisites by Topic
  • Load Reactions
  • Area Centroids
  • Area Moment of Inertia

Course Topics
  • Introduction, Stress-strain, Hardness, Toughness (3 classes)
  • Axial stress (tension/compression) (2 classes)
  • Buckling (2 classes)
  • Pinned Joints (3 classes)
  • Torsion (3 classes)
  • Shear-moment diagrams (4 classes)
  • Bending (3 classes)
  • Maximum stresses (3 classes)
  • Beam deflection (2 classes)
  • Review & Exams (5 classes)
  • Comprehensive Final Exam Required

Laboratory Topics
  • Tensile (stress/strain); Charpy; Hardness
  • Buckling; Stress Concentrations
  • Torsional Deflection and Stress
  • Axial Loading with Rosettes
  • Bending Stress
  • Beam Deflection
  • Torsion and Bending
  • Cylinder Stresses

Coordinator
Joseph Musto



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