CS2001:03
Engineering Strength of Materials
Townsville
Prerequisites: CS1001 or EG1001
39 lectures, 26 tutorials, 13 hours practicals. First semester.
Available to engineering students.
Review of shear force and bending moment diagrams. Force systems. Pure bending of elastic beams; composite beams, unsymmetrical sections. Shearing stresses in beams; shear flow, shear centre. Analysis of plane stress and plane strain; Hooke’s law, stress transformations, Mohr’s circle. Torsion for circular sections. Compound stresses. Bending deflection; double integration, moment area methods. Column behaviour, Euler load, secant formula, short and long columns, slenderness ratio, effective length. Introduction to theories of failure.
Learning Objectives:
- understand and define the basic concepts, properties and variables in solid static mechanics;
- understand the derivations of the equations and techniques commonly used in engineering statics analysis;
- understand the simplifications and assumptions of the equations and techniques commonly used in engineering statics analysis;
- solve problems in solid static analysis for axial, bending, and torsional loadings;
- solve problems in solid static design for simply supported beams and columns subjected to a variety of loadings.
Assessment by examination (50%-70%); on-course assessment (30%-50%).