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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%).