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Strength of Materials 232

  • 308802
  • Semester 1
  • 25.0
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Introduction for Strength of Materials. Normal stresses and strains. Shear stresses and strains. Hooke’s law in tension and shear, Poisson’s ratio. The concepts of allowable stresses, factor of safety. Computation of changes in length of axially loaded members, uniform and nonuniform bars. Statically indeterminate structures. Formulation of the torsion formula and its applications. Stresses and strains in pure shear. Types of beams and different boundary conditions. Construction of shear force and bending diagrams. Formulation and applications of flexure formula based on the Euler beam theory. Design of beams for bending stresses. Formulation of the shear formula. Design of beams for... -- Course Website

Prerequisites: 307529 (v.4)<br/> Engineering Mechanics 100<br/> <br/> or any previous version<br/> <br/> <br/><br/> <br/> AND<br/><br/> <br/> 307533 (v.3)<br/> Engineering Materials 100<br/> <br/> or any previous version



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