CE2001 MECHANICS OF SOLIDS L T P Cr/3 0 0 3

Class Schedule
1. Tension, compression and shear (10 hours)
1. General introduction to mechanics of solids, Introduction to tension, compression and shear
2. Types of external loads, body forces and surface forces, line loads and concentrated loads as a special case
of surface loads, self weight
3. Stress at a point, notation and sign convention, normal and shear stresses; strain at a point, normal and shear
strains
4. Constitutive relations, Hookes law, relationship between elastic constants; stress-strain diagrams, working
stress
5. Elongation of bars of constant and varying sections
6, 7 Statically indeterminate problems in tension and compression
8. Assembly and thermal stresses
9. Strain energy in tension, compression and shear
10. Tutorial # 1
2. Analysis of stress and strain (5 hours)
11. Stress on inclined planes for axial and biaxial stress fields
12. Principal stresses, Mohrs circle of stress
13. A number of examples
14. Principal strains, strain rosette
15. Principal stress/strain problem as an eigenvalue problem
3. Bending moment and shear force (6 hours)
16. Introduction to beams, types of beams, shear force and bending moment diagrams
17. SFD and BMD for simply supported, overhanging and cantilever beams
18. Relationship connecting intensity of loading, shearing force and bending moment
19. Shear force and bending moment diagrams for statically determinate plane frames
20. A number of examples
21. Tutorial # 2
4. Stresses in laterally loaded symmetrical beams (7 hours)
22. Theory of simple bending, limitations
23. Bending stresses in beams of different cross sections
24. Moment of resistance, beams of uniform strength
25. Beams of two materials
26. Shearing stresses in bending
27. Principal stresses in bending, strain energy due to bending
28. Examples
5. Unsymmetrical bending (3 hours)
29. Shear flow
30. Shear centre, determination of shear centre for simple sections
31. Tutorial # 3
6. Theory of columns (4 hours)
32. Axial loading of short strut
33. Long columns, differential equation of the elastic curve, Eulers formula
34. Eccentric loading, direct and bending stresses
35. buckling load as an eigenvalue problem.
7. Torsion (4 hours)
36. Torsion of circular solid shafts
37. Hollow shafts, power transmission
38. Strain energy in shear and torsion
39. Close coiled springs, open coiled helical springs
8. Thin and thick cylinders (3 hours)
40. Lames equation, stresses in thick cylinders due to internal and external pressures
41. Compound cylinders, shrink fit, wire wound pipes and cylinders
42. Tutorial # 4
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