ME-304 · Strength of Material/Official Syllabus
Strength of Material (ME-304) - Official Syllabus
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Unit 1
Stress and strain
- stresses in members of a structure
- axial loading
- normal stress
- shear stress
- analysis of simple structures
- stepped rods
- members in series and parallel
- stress strain diagram
- Hooke’s law
- stress due to temperature
- Poisson’s ratio
- Bulk modulus
- shear strain
- relation among elastic constants
- residual stress
- fiber reinforced composite materials
- strain energy under axial loads and stresses due to impact of falling weights
- Transformation of stress and strain
- principal stresses
- normal and shear stress
- Mohr’s circle and its application to two and three dimensional analysis
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Unit 2
Bending
- pure bending
- symmetric member
- deformation and stress
- bending of composite sections
- eccentric axial loading
- shear force and BM diagram
- relationship among load, shear and BM
- shear stresses in beams
- strain energy in bending
- deflection of beams
- equation of elastic curve
- Macaulay’s method and Area moment method for deflection of beams
3
Unit 3
Torsion in shafts
- Tensional stresses in a shafts
- deformation in circular shaft
- angle of twist
- stepped and hollow transmission shafts
4
Unit 4
Theories of failures
- maximum normal stress & shear stress theory
- maximum normal and shear strain energy theory
- maximum distortion energy theory
- application of theories to different materials and loading conditions
5
Unit 5
Columns & struts
- stability of structures
- Euler’s formula for columns with different end conditions
- Rankine’s formula
Laboratory Experiments
- Standard tensile test on MS and CI test specimen with the help of UTM
- Direct/ cross Shear test on MS and CI specimen
- Transverse bending test on wooden beams to obtain modulus of rupture
- Fatigue test
- Brinell Hardness tests
- Vicker hardness test
- Izod/Charpy test
- Rockwell Hardness test
Reference Books
- Mechanics of Materials — Beer FP, Johnson — Mc Graw Hills — Sixth Edition
- Strength of Materials — Debabrata Nag, Abhijet Chanda — Wiley
- Strength of materials — Rattan — Mc Graw Hills — Second Edition
- Schaum’s Outline Series: Strength of Materials — Nash William — Mc Graw Hills — forth Edition
- Mechanics of Solids — Singh Arbind K — PHI
- Strength of Materials — Sadhu Singh — Khanna Pub.
- Strength of materials — R Subramannian — OXFORD University Press — Third Edition
- Strength of materials — S Ramamurthum — Dhanpat Rai
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