ADIGRAT UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Course title: Strength of Materials II Program: Degree

Course code: MEng2082 Enrollment: Regular
Credit hours: 3 ECTS: 5 Contact hours: 5 Pre-requisites: MEng1081
Course offered by: Ins denus caf Academic Year: 2017/201
Course offered to: Mechanical Engineering 2ndyear students
COURSE CONTENTS:
1. Deflection of Beams: work and Energy method
Elastic Strain Energy for:
 Uni-axial stress
 Shear stress
 Pure bending
 Multi axial stress
2. Statically indeterminate problems
 Introduction
 Elastic methods of analysis
 Two basic methods for elastic analysis
o Force method
o Displacement method
3. Unsymmetrical Bending
 Bending about both principal axes
 Elastic bending with axial loads
 Bending of beams with unsymmetrical cross sections
 Bending of curved beams
4. Torsion of non-circular and thin walled sections
 Torsion of non-circular cross sections
 Torsion of thin walled cross sections
5. Strains beyond the elastic limits
 Introduction
 Ultimate load capacity of members
 Axially loaded
 Plastic bending
 Moment curvature relation
  Plastic hinges
 Determination of the collapse load
6. Thin and thick cylinders
 Thin cylinders and shells
 Thick cylinders
7. Rings, Discs and cylinders subjected to rotational and thermal gradients
 Rotating thin cylinders and rings
 Rotating thick cylinders (hollow shafts) and/or solid shafts
8. Pressure Vessels
 Classification of pressure vessels
 Stress in cylindrical shells due to internal pressure
 Changes in the dimensions of cylindrical shells
 Stress in compound cylindrical shells subjected to internal pressure.
 Cylindrical heads and cover plates
 Introduction to pressure vessel codes and standards
9. Theories of Elastic Failure:
 Maximum principal stress Theory
 Maximum shear stress theory
 Total strain shear stress theory
 Distortion energy theory
 Mohr’s modified shear stress theory for brittle materials
References:
1. Ferdinand p. beer, jr., e. Russell Johnston, and john t. dewolf, mechanics of materials,
2005
2. Hearn. E.S., mechanics of materials, Aug. 1977.
3. Andrew Pytel and Ferdinand L. Singer. Strength of material, 1987.
4. Nash, W.A., strength of materials (schaum’s outline series), 1981.

Assessment and Evaluation:

 Quiz, test, Assignments and Attendance (60%)

 Final exam:40%