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Strength of Materials (CE-305) - Official Syllabus

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Unit 1

Simple Stress and Strains

  • Concept of Elastic body stress and Strain
  • Hooke’s law
  • Various types of stress and strains
  • Elastic constants
  • Stresses in compound bars
  • composite and tapering bars
  • Temperature stresses
  • Complex Stress and Strains- Two dimensional and three dimensional stress system
  • Normal and tangential stresses
  • Principal Planes
  • Principal Stresses and Strains
  • Mohr’s circle of stresses
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Unit 2

Bending and Shearing Stresses

  • Theory of simple bending
  • Concept of pure bending and bending stress
  • Equation of bending
  • Neutral axis
  • Section-Modulus
  • Differential equation of the elastic curve
  • Determination of bending stresses in simply supported, Cantilever and Overhanging beams subjected to point load and uniformly distributed loading
  • Bending stress distribution across a section of beam
  • Shearing Stress and shear stress distribution across a section in Beams
3
Unit 3

Determination of Slope and Deflection of beams

  • Double Integration Method
  • Macaulay’s Method
  • Area Moment Method
  • Conjugate Beam Method
  • Strain Energy Method
  • Castiglione’s Method
  • Unit Load Method
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Unit 4

Columns and Struts

  • Theory of columns
  • Slenderness ratio
  • Direct and bending stresses in short columns
  • Kern of a section
  • Buckling and stability
  • Euler’s buckling/crippling load for columns with different end conditions
  • Rankin’s formula
  • Eccentric loads and the Secant formula- Imperfections in columns
  • Thin Pressure Vessels: cylinders and spheres
  • Stress due to internal pressure
  • Change in diameter and volume
  • Theories of failure
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Unit 5

Torsion of Shafts

  • Concept of pure torsion
  • Torsion equation
  • Determination of shear stress and angle of twist of shafts of circular section
  • Torsion of solid and hollow circular shafts
  • Analyses of problems based on combined Bending and Torsion
  • Unsymmetrical Bending: Principal moment of Inertia
  • Product of Inertia
  • Bending of a beam in a plane which is not a plane of symmetry
  • Shear center
  • Curved beams: Pure bending of curved beams of rectangular, circular and trapezoidal sections
  • Stress distribution and position of neutral axis

Laboratory Experiments

  • Study of Universal testing machine
  • To determine the compressive and tensile strength of materials
  • To determine the Brinell hardness of materials
  • To determine the Rockwell hardness of materials
  • To determine the toughness of the materials
  • To determine the stiffness of the spring
  • To determine the deflection of beam by the use of deflection-beam apparatus

Reference Books

  • Mechanics of Materials — Punmia B.C. — Laxmi Publications (P) Ltd
  • Strength of Materials — S.S Bhavikaati — Vikas Publisher, new Delhi
  • Strength of Materials — Rajput R. K. — S. Chand
  • Strength of Materials — S. Ramamrutham, R. Narayanan — DhanpatRai Publications
  • Strength of Materials — R. Subramaniam — Oxford University Press
  • Strength of Material — Sadhu Singh — Khanna Publishers
  • Mechanics of solids — Mubeen A — Pearsons
  • Strength of Material — D.S PrakashRao — University Press , Hyderabad
  • Strength of Material — Debrath Nag — Wiley
  • Strength of Material — Jindal — Pearsons
  • Strength of Materials — Bansal R.K — Laxmi Publisher, New Delhi
  • Strength of Materials — Nash, W.A. — Mcgraw hills, New Delhi
  • Strength of Materials — Chandramouli — PHI learning
  • Strength of Materials — Dongre A.P. — Scitech, Chennai
  • Strength of Materials — Negi L. S — McGraw Hill Professional
  • Strength of Material — Raj Puroshattam — Pearsons
  • Mechanics of Material — J.M. Gere, J. G. Barry — Cengage Learning
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