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Strength of materials

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Welcome to this learning project about Strength of materials!

Contents

1 Learning Project Summary

2 Content summary

3 Goals

4 Contents4.1 Lessons

4.2 Assignments4.3 Tests and Quizzes

4.4 Readings and other resources5 Active participants

6 Learning materials

Learning Project Summary

Project code:

Suggested Prerequisites:

Statics

Introduction to dynamics

Time investment: 6 months

Portal:Engineering and Technology

School:EngineeringDepartment:Mechanical Engineering

Stream:Solid Mechanics

Level: Second year undergraduate

Content summary

This learning project is an introduction to the study of strength of materials. It discusses the simple and easy touse method for determining the stresses and strains in materials and how materials fail.

Goals

This learning project aims to teach the student how to calculate stresses and strains that materials undergo whenloaded. After taking this course, a student should be able to understand the different types of stresses includingnormal, torsion, bending and shearing. They should also be able to solve for deflections in elastic materials, andunderstand how a materials yields and eventually fails under load.

30/8/2014 Strength of materials - Wikiversity

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Contents

Lessons

Lesson 1: Stresses and strains

Lesson 2: Elastic properties and plane stress

Lesson 3: Stress transformations and Mohr's circleLesson 3a: Introduction to Axial Loading

Lesson 4: Structures with Axial Loading

Lesson 5: Introduction to Torsion

Lesson 6: Torsion in Structures

Lesson 7: Shear Forces and Bending Moments

Lesson 8: Introduction to Stresses in Beams

Lesson 9: Stresses in Beams

Lesson 10: Analysis of Stress and StrainLesson 11: Applications of Plane Stress

Lesson 12: Introduction to Beam DeflectionLesson 13: Beam Deflection

Lesson 14: Statically Indeterminate BeamsLesson 15: Introduction to Beam Deflection

Lesson 16: ColumnsAppendix A: Centroids and Moments of Inertia

Assignments

Assignment 1: ...

Tests and Quizzes

Quiz 1Quiz 2

Test 1etc.

Readings and other resources

Active participants

Active participants in this Learning Group

Capoeirista.muralha...

Learning materials

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