Mechanics of Materials (CE-212)

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1. Credit Hours: 3+1

2. Contact Hours: 3+3
3. Semester: 3rd Semester (Fall 2019)
4. Pre-Requisites: Phy-122 Basic Mechanics
5. Course Objectives:

To develop concepts regarding Mechanics of Materials.

6. Reference Books:
a. Strength of Materials by Andrew Pytel and Ferdined L. Singer (4th Edition)
b. Mechanics of Materials by Zahid Ahmed Siddiqui (1st Edition)
7. Course Outline:
i. Types of stresses and strains, stress-strain behavior of ductile and brittle materials. Statically
determinate and indeterminate problems, compound bars. Temperature stresses.
ii. Bending moment and shear force diagrams for determinate beams for general loading. Principle
of superposition, relationship between load, shear force and bending moment.
iii. Theory of simple bending, distribution of bending and shear stresses in beams of symmetrical
sections.
iv. Differential equation of beam deflection. Deflection of beams using the double integration.
Singular Functions moment area and conjugate beam methods. Strain energy due to direct loads,
shear and bending. Castigliano’s theorems and their application to find deflections and rotations.
v. Combined bending and axial stresses, Columns, types of columns, stability of columns, Euler and
other formulae for elastic critical load, eccentrically loaded short columns.
vi. Torsion of solid and hollow circular sections. Strain energy due to torsion and impact loads.
vii. Merits and demerits of steel and reinforced concrete construction. Types of loads. Various design
methods. Limit states.

NFC-IEFR Department of Civil Engineering Mechanics of Materials