Engr 350 - Mechanics of Materials

Syllabus for Engr 350

Text: Mechanics of Materials 5th ed. by Riley, Sturges & Morris, published by J. Wiley & Sons, 1999.

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Class Date Topic Reading Assignment
1 Jan 14 No Class -
2 Jan 16 Intro/Review of Statics 1.1-1.5
3 Jan 18 Stress: definitions, notation, signs, plane stress 2.1-2.7
Jan 21 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
4 Jan 23 Stress Transformation Equations 2.8 1-7, 10, 15, 28 2-5,
5 Jan 25 Principal stress 2.9 2-9, 10, 21
6 Jan 28 Mohr's circle 2.10 2-48
7 Jan 30 Mohr's circle, 3D stress state 2.11 2-58, 73, 88, 96, 102
8 Feb 1 Strain: definition, notation, signs 3.1-3.3 2-113, 119, 121, 127
9 Feb 4 Principal strain & Mohr's circle 3.4-3.6 2-133, 136, 160, 164
10 Feb 6 Strain measurement 3.7 3-3, 6, 13
11 Feb 8 Stress-strain relationships 4.1-4.4 3-23, 61
12 Feb 11 Allowable Stresses 4.6 3-77
13 Feb 13 EXAM #1 Prob. 1, Prob. 2, Prob. 3 Old Exam Prob.1, Prob. 2
14 Feb 15 Axial loads 5.1-5.2 4-1, 7
15 Feb 18 President's Day
16 Feb 20 Indeterminate axial members 5.4 4-25, 65, 69
17 Feb 22 Thermal strains in axial members 5.5 5-9, 18
18 Feb 25 Thin-walled pressure vessels 5.9 5-54, 55, 61
19 Feb 27 Torsion in circular shafts 6.1-6.4 5-76, 81, 81 flexibility
20 Mar 1 Transmission of power 6.5-6.6 5-135, 140
21 Mar 4 Indeterminate torsion members 6.7
22 Mar 6 Shear force & bending moment diagrams 7.5 6-11, 17, 18; 6-20, 35, 41
23 Mar 8 Exam #2, Prob. 1, Prob. 2, Prob. 3, Prob. 4 Old Exam Pr 1., Pr 2, Pr 3
24 Mar 11 Shear force & bending moment diagrams 7.6 6-73, 78, 97
25 Mar 13 Flexural stresses & strains - Lab 7.1-7.4 7-33, 39, 41a
26 Mar 15 Shear stresses in beams 7.7 7-62, 66, 68, Shear & Moment Diagrams only.
18-22 Spring Recess
27 Mar 25 Principal stresses in bending 7.8 7-3, 6, 13, 16
Mar 27 Composite beams 7.13 7-84, 86, 87, 90, 93
28 Mar 29 Beam deflections 8.1-8.2 7-95
29 Apr 1 Integration methods 8.3-8.4 7-165, 167, 171
30 Apr 3 Discontinuity functions 8.5
31 Apr 5 Integration with discontinuity functions 8.5 8-2, 5, 15 8-35, 40
32 Apr 8 Exam #3, Prob. 1, Prob. 2, Prob. 3, Prob. 4 Old Exam Pr 1, Pr 2, Pr 3, Pr 4
33 Apr 10 Deflections by Superposition 8.6
34 Apr 12 Conjugate beam Handouts 8-47, 51 8-56, 63
35 Apr 15 Indeterminate beams by integration 8.9 8-71, 83 (no conj. beam)
36 Apr 17 Indeterminate beams by superposition 8.9 8-115, 121, 127
37 Apr 19 Column Buckling 9.1-9.2 8-145, 151, 156
38 Apr 22 End conditions 9.3 9-9, 12, 15
39 Apr 24 Secant formula 9.4 9-26, 30, 31
40 Apr 26 Strain energy 10.1-10.3 9-42, 47, 50
41 Apr 29 Exam #4, Prob. 1, Prob. 2, Prob. 3 Old Exam Pr. 1, Pr. 2, Pr. 3
42 May 1 Deflections by strain energy 8.8 10-2, 3, 6
43 May 3 Combined loads 7.16 8-99, 100
44 May 6 Combined loads 7.16 7-195, 197
45 May 8 Failure theories 10.6-10.8 7-205, 215, 219
46 May 10 Review 10-48, 57, 67
47 May 17 Final Exam - 10:00 AM Old Exam, Pr. 1, Pr. 2, Pr. 4

The reading assignments should be completed before each lecture.

Homework is due on the dates shown.