Course Description
Elements of stress analysis, resistance, and design as applied to engineering materials and structures.
Athena Title
Strength of Materials
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in ENGR 2140E
Prerequisite
ENGR 2120 or ENGR 2120E or ENGR 2120H
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall, spring and summer
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
- Students will draw free body diagrams for various types of members and apply the equation of statics.
- Students will determine the internal forces in a member caused by various types of external forces.
- Students will determine the properties of a cross-section (centroid, area, moment of inertia, polar moment of inertia and Q).
- Students will calculate normal and shear stresses caused by various types of external forces.
- Students will draw the differential element at a discrete location in a member under various types of loads.
- Students will draw the shear and moment diagram for a bending member.
- Students will determine the internal stresses within a member at discrete angles using Mohr's circle.
- Students will write the equations of shear, moment, slope and deflection of a bending member.
- Students will understand the physical properties of brittle and ductile engineering materials.
- Students will design of simple components based on stress criteria.
Topical Outline
- Axial loaded bars
- Axial strain
- Torsion
- Bending
- Transverse Shear
- Combined loading
- Stress transformation
- Design of beams
- Deflection
Institutional Competencies Learning Outcomes
Analytical Thinking
The ability to reason, interpret, analyze, and solve problems from a wide array of authentic contexts.
Syllabus
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