Applied Solid Mechanics

4.0 credits

This course covers the topics of solid mechanical analysis and design for upper-level mechanical engineering students. The topics include: stress-strain relations, generalized Hooke’s law, St Venant’s principle, plane stress, plane strain, thermal stress, failure criteria (yield, shear, fatigue, dynamic load), beam theory, composite beams, shear flow, statically indeterminate systems, energy methods for deflections, torsion of circular bars, torsion of thin-walled members, finite difference method, finite element method, thin-walled cylinders, work and energy principles, reciprocity theorem, Castigliano’s theorem, principle of virtual work, Rayleigh-Ritz method, column buckling.