CS2001:03
Engineering Strength of Materials
| Townsville | HECS Band 2 |
39 hours lectures, 39 hours tutorials and practicals. Semester 1.
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%).