ME 309 - Intermediate Mechanics of Materials

• Be familiar with several static failure criteria and be able to apply an appropriate criterion for a given material/stress state
• Be familiar with column design codes (steel, aluminum, and timber) and be able to design compression members
• Solve statically indeterminate problems
• Know how to find solutions for thin-wall pressure vessels loading and non-circular members under torsion loading
• Understand the assumptions inherent in approximate theories of stress and strain
• Have completed design exercises in which iterations were required to find an acceptable solution

• Basic strength of materials, statics, integral and differential calculus

• Review of fundamental mechanics of materials topics (2 classes)
• Static failure theories (6 classes)
• Buckling and Column design (6 classes)
• Beam deflection by moment-area method (2 classes)
• Statically indeterminate structures (2 classes)
• 3-D Hooke’ Law, Stress and Strain (2 classes)
• Thin and thick walled pressure vessels (2 classes)
• Torsion of non-circular across-section (3 classes)

• Modulus and Column Buckling
• Pressure vessel
• Deflection of a Statically Indeterminate Beam
• Non-Circular Torsion