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CE 4413: MECHANICS OF
SOLIDS II

Lecture Notes: General

Dr. Munaz Ahmed Noor
Vice-Chancellor
IUT and
Professor
Department of Civil
Engineering
BUET
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Details of Lecturer

Course Lecturer: Dr. Munaz Ahmed Noor

Position: Professor and Vice-Chancellor
Office: VC office

Email: munaz.noor@gmail.com

Contact Teacher: by email

3.00 credits, 3 hrs/week. Prereq: CE 4311

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Course Objectives

This course has two specific objectives:

– To introduce students to concepts of bending
moment; stress transformation; failure
criteria; deflection of beams and buckling of
columns.
– To develop theoretical and analytical skills
relevant to the areas mentioned in above.
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Course Outline
Symmetric and unsymmetric bending of beams
Stress transformation
Failure criteria
Thin walled pressure vessels
Beam deflection
i. Direct integration
ii. Moment Area
Buckling of Columns
Elastic strain energy and external work
Cable and cable supported structures
Bolted, riveted and welded joints
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Course Outcome
• Upon successful completion of this course,
students should be able to:
• Understand the difference between statically
determinate and indeterminate problems.
• Draw shear force and bending moment
diagrams of simple beams and understand the
relationships between loading intensity,
shearing force and bending moment.
• Compute the bending stresses in beams with
one or two materials.
• How materials fail and criteria for failure.
Useful in structural design.
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Course Objectives …

• Analyze stresses in two dimensions and understand

the concepts of principal stresses and the use of
Mohr circles to solve two-dimensional stress
problems.
• Calculate the deflection of beams using the direct
integration and moment-area method.
• Solve problems using energy methods.
• Apply sound analytical techniques and logical
procedures in the solution of engineering problems.
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Teaching Strategies
• The course will be taught via Lectures.
Lectures will also involve the solution of
some example problems. Example problems
are designed to complement and enhance both
the lectures and the students appreciation of
the subject.
• Assignments will be given for the students.
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Lecture Times

• Monday: 12:10 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.

• Friday: 11:20 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

• Attendance at the Lectures and Submission of

Assignments are Compulsory.
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More Course Details
• BOOK
– Title : Engineering Mechanics of Solids (2nd. Ed.)
– Publisher : Prentice Hall
– Author : Egor P. Popov

• COURSE WORK
– 1. Class participation (15%);
– 2. Mid Term Examination (25%);
– 3. End of Semester Examination (60%).
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Old Saying

“To learn a new subject, review the old

theory first”
- Confucius
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Mechanics of Solids
• Mechanics is a branch of physics that is concerned
with the analysis of the action of forces on matter or
material systems.
• Solid Mechanics is mechanics about deformable
solids.
• Essential for design of all structures (bridges,
machines, cars…)
• Uses analytical methods for determining the
– Strength
– deformation characteristics
– stability
of load-carrying members and structures
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What do we mean “a solid”?
• A solid can sustain shear.
• A body is and remains CONTINUOUS under the
action of external forces
– Consisting of continuous material points
– Neighboring points remain neighbors
– Neglecting its atomistic structure
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Application of Mechanics of Solids
• design offshore structures (civil engineers)
• design of bridges and buildings (civil engineers)
• mining engineering (mining engineers)
• architectural structures (architects)
• design of reactor components (nuclear engineers)
• design of machinery and pressure vessels (chemical and
mechanical engineers)
• design new materials (metallurgists)
• design of electrical equipment (electrical and mechanical
engineers)
• design of airplanes and space shuttle (aeronautical
engineers)
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Civil Engineering Structures
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Turbine Engine
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Aerospace Structures
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Historical Preview
• Before the seventeenth century, constructors followed
precedents and empirical rules.
• Galileo (seventeenth century) was first to attempt to explain the
behavior of some of the members under load on a rational basis
• Much is owed to all the investigators in developing the early
foundations of this subject:
– Coulomb
– Poisson
– Navier
– St. Venant
– Cauchy
– Thomas Young
which comprise only a few of the early pioneers.
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Siméon Denis Poisson

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Types of Forces

• External forces :
– can be surface or
body
• Reactions
• Internal forces
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Review of Statics

• Three technique ingredients of Mechanics

of Solids
– Kinetics (force [stress] motion [equilibrium])
– Kinematics (geometry of motion
[deformation])
– Constitutive relation (unique relation between
stress and strain for a particular material)
• By Equilibrium we mean balance of force
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Logic in structural analysis
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Fundamentals in Statics
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Fundamentals in Statics

• Equations of statics

Fx=0 Mx=0
Fy=0 My=0 3-D
Fz=0 Mz=0

Fx=0 Fy=0 Mz=0 2-D

• The right handed system of Cartesian axes shall

be used in this course
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Method of Sections

The analysis of the structures begins by

preparing a free-body diagram

Key to solve any civil engineering problem

“how to draw free-body diagram”
A good structural engineer can take a
complex structure apart in his or her mind –
the process is called “deconstruction”
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How to draw Free-Body diagram
• A Three step deconstruction process
1. Identify the object you want to isolate

2. Draw a sketch of the object isolated from its surrounding environment

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How to draw Free-Body diagram…

3. Show all external forces/moments acting on the structure and label them

Now continue deconstructing structure further to your need

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• THANKS