Review of statics; concepts of stress and strain; mechanical properties of materials; Hooke's Law; axial stress; flexural stress; centroids and moments of areas; shear stress in shafts and beams; calculation of beam displacement by integration; introduction to combined loading; introduction to column buckling, introduction to plastic moments, introduction to the Principle of Virtual Work to calculate truss deflections. (Lec: 3, Lab: 0, Tut: 1.5)
Review of statics; concepts of stress and strain; mechanical properties of materials; Hooke's Law; axial stress; flexural stress; centroids and moments of areas; shear stress in shafts and beams; calculation of beam displacement by integration; introduction to combined loading; introduction to column buckling, introduction to plastic moments, introduction to the Principle of Virtual Work to calculate truss deflections. (Lec: 3, Lab: 0, Tut: 1.5)
