Solid Mechanics 3 (U01100)

? Credit Points : 10 ? SCQF Level : 9 ? Acronym : EEL-3-MESLD

To give a basic understanding of structural modelling and stress analysis to the student to check design work for strength and stability, to check stress existing designs and to investigate failure problems.

Entry Requirements

? Pre-requisites : U00460 Structural Mechanics 2A

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Mechanical, (School of Engineering and Electronics, Schedule M)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 3rd year

? Delivery Period : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2)

? Contact Teaching Time : 3 hour(s) per week for 11 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
19/09/2006	10:00	11:00	Lecture Theatre 2, Hudson Beare Building	KB

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Tuesday	10:00	10:50	KB
Lecture	Wednesday	10:00	10:50	KB

? Additional Class Information : Tutorials either Tue or Wed 11.10-12.00.

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

On completion of the course, the students should be able to
1. Use singularity functions in bending moment equations
2. Recognise unsymmetric bending problems
3. Calculate stresses and deflections for skew loading bending problems
4. Calculate the position of the Princ. Axes in an unsymmetric cross section
5. Find the position of the NA in an unsymmetric cross section
6. Calculate the shear stresses in thin sections
7. Appreciate the limitations of the shear stress equation
8. Calculate the shear stresses in a cross section with one axis of symmetry
9. Calculate the position of the Shear Centre of a cross section
10. Apply Euler's Buckling Equation
11. Appreciate the errors in the Euler Buckling Equation
12. Use the slenderness ratio in the design of struts
13. Apply ecc. Loading as a design approach to real struts
14. Calculate the Work Done by external forces on structures
15. Calculate the Strain Energy stored in a structure due standard loading actions
16. Calculate the Strain Energy due to combined loading
17. Use strain energy to calculate impact stresses
18. Conservation of Energy in structures
19. Apply Unit Force Method to simple structures
20. Apply Castigliano's Th 1&2 to beams, curved beams, combined structures and frameworks.