Syllabus
Concepts of stress, strain – torsion – axial force, shear, and bending moment – pure bending – shear stress in beams – transformation of stresses and strains – deflection of beams columns; Euler loads, beam-columns, eccentrically loaded columns – energy methods, virtual displacement method, virtual force method.
Text Books
Popov, E. P., Engineering Mechanics of Solids, 2nd ed., Pearson Education (2015).
References
1. Hibbeler, R. C., Mechanics of Materials, 9th ed., Prentice Hall (2013).
2. Beer, F. P., Johnston, E. R., and DeWolf, J. T., Mechanics of Materials, 7th ed., McGraw-Hill (2014).
3. Srinath, L. S., Advanced Mechanics of Solids, 2nd ed., Tata McGraw-Hill (2003).
Course Outcomes (COs):
CO1: Draw free body diagrams and set up equilibrium equations.
CO2: To understand the concept of stress and strain, and their relationship.
CO3: To determine principal stresses and angles, maximum shearing stresses and angles, and the stresses acting on any arbitrary plane within a structural element.
CO4: To calculate forces, deflection, moments, stresses and strain of structural members.
CO5: Apply failure criteria on fundamental elements of engineering structures.