Syllabus

Course Meeting Times

Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session

Recitations: 1 session / week, 1.5 hours / session

Course Structure

Lectures

Each week there will be two lectures. Attendance at lectures is mandatory.

Recitations

Each week, students will meet for a 1.5-hour recitation section consisting of 10 - 20 students. Attendance during these sessions is mandatory. The recitation sections will consist of additional discussion of course material, examples and experiments. These sections serve three main purposes: (1) they provide a more informal opportunity to explore issues and ask questions about lectures, texts, or previously assigned material which requires clarification; (2) example problems will be presented and discussed, and (3) they provide opportunities to further explore course topics with experiments.

Prerequisites and Corequisites

Prerequisites:

Corequisites:

Prerequisites and Corequisites are strictly enforced.

Texts

Required

  1. Hibbeler, R. C. Mechanics of Materials. 6th ed. East Rutherford, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004. ISBN: 9780131913455.
  2. Lecture Notes

Recommended

  1. Crandall, S. H., N. C. Dahl, and T. J. Lardner. An Introduction to the Mechanics of Solids. 2nd ed. New York, NY: McGraw Hill, 1979. ISBN: 9780070662308.

Assignments

Problem sets will typically be handed out on Wednesdays and due the following Wednesday. To receive credit, problem sets must be handed in at the beginning of class on the due date. Problem sets will not necessarily be assigned every week because of tests, holidays, etc. Late problem sets will not be accepted. The lowest problem set grade will be dropped.

You are welcome, and encouraged, to work on the assignment problems with fellow students. A good way to learn the material is in small study groups. Such groups work best if members have attempted the problems individually before meeting as a group. Of course, the assignment solution that you turn in should reflect your own understanding, and not that of your fellow students. In other words, do not copy directly from other students. If it is obvious that such direct copying has occurred, we will disallow that homework.

Tests

There will be two one and one-half hour quizzes and a three-hour final exam. These will be closed book. Two pages of notes (one-sided) are permitted for each quiz, four pages for the final.

Tutorials

The TAs will hold a tutorial session one or two days before each quiz. Details will be announced prior to each tutorial.

Grading

ACTIVITIES PERCENTAGES
Homework 13%
Quiz 1 15%
Quiz 2 25%
Recitations 12%
Final Exam 35%

 

Calendar

LEC # TOPICS KEY DATES
Part 1: Statics - Elements of Equilibrium
1 Course Outline, Review of Forces and Moments, Introduction to Equilibrium  
2 Forces, Moments, Equilibrium  
3 Applying the Equations of Equilibrium, Planar Trusses  
4 Friction  
Part 2: Forces and Moments Transmitted by Slender Members
5 Shear Force and Bending Moment Diagrams Problem set 1 due
6 Shear Force and Bending Moment Diagrams (cont.) Problem set 2 due
Part 3: Mechanics of Deformable Bodies - Introduction
7 Force-deformation Relationships and Static Indeterminacy  
8 Finishing up Static Indeterminacy; Uniaxial Loading and Material Properties Problem set 3 due
9 Trusses and Their Deformations Problem set 4 due
10 Statically Determinate and Indeterminate Trusses Problem set 5 due
11 Quiz 1  
Part 4: Force-Stress-Equilibrium
12 Multiaxial Stress  
13 Multiaxial Stress and Strain  
Part 5: Displacement - Strain
14 Multiaxial Strain and Multiaxial Stress-strain Relationships  
Part 6: Linear Elasticity - Material Behavior
15 Stress-strain-temperature Relationships and Thin-walled Pressure Vessels Problem set 6 due
16 Stress Transformations and Principal Stress  
17 Stress and Strain Transformations Problem set 7 due
18 Failure of Materials and Examples Problem set 8 due
19 Quiz 2  
Part 7: Bending: Stress and Strains; Deflections
20 Pure Bending  
21 Moment-curvature Relationship Problem set 9 due
22 Beam Deflection  
23 Symmetry, Superposition, and Statically Indeterminate Beams Problem set 10 due
Part 8: Torsion; Energy Methods
24 Torsion and Twisting  
25 Torsion Examples Problem set 11 due
26 Energy Methods  
27 Examples