Introduction to Solid Mechanics

4 credits · College of Engineering catalogue

Advisory Prerequisite: None. Enforced Prerequisite: (PHYSICS 140 or PHYSICS 160) and (PHYSICS 141 or PHYSICS 161) and (MATH 116 or MATH 119 or MATH 121 or MATH 156 or MATH 176 or MATH 186 or MATH 296); and fewer than two previous elections of MECHENG 211, including grades of W & I; No OP/F . Minimum grade requirement of “C” for enforced prerequisite. Credit Exclusions: Student may only receive credit for one course, MECHENG 210 or MECHENG 211. (4 credits) Statics: moment and force resultants, equilibrium. Mechanics of deformable bodies: stress/strain, classification of material behavior, generalized Hooke’s law. Engineering applications: axial loads, torsion of circular rods and tubes, bending and shear stresses in beams, deflection of beams, combined stresses, stress and strain transformation.