Mechanics of Materials for Energy Engineering

3 credits · Undergraduate Programs

Internal forces in trusses, beams, shafts, frames and machines. Axial-force, shear-force, bending-moment and internal-torque diagrams. The concept of stress. Normal and shear components in a co-ordinate system. The concept of strain and its components. Stress-strain relations. Elasticity. Hooke's law and its generalization. Stress and deformation of uniaxially loaded members. Stress and deformation in the torsion of shafts of a circular cross section. Stress and deformation in transversely loaded beams of a symmetric cross section. General analysis of plane stress. Principal stresses. Mohr's circle. Stress in structures subjected to combine loading. Prerequisite(s): Energy Engineering 260 and admission to the BSc Energy Engineering program.