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MTE 247
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Title: | Strength of Materials |
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Course Description: | Serves as an extension of Statics and includes the study of mechanical
properties of materials and their limitations in engineering design by the study or
stresses, strains, torsion forces, shear forces, and deflections placed upon these
materials.
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Min Credit: | 3 |
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Origin Notes: | RRCC |
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Course Notes: | New course entered 10/5/13 was ENT 247 |
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STANDARD COMPETENCIES:
1. Demonstrate familiarity with simple stress forces placed on materials.
2. Demonstrate familiarity with strains placed on design materials.
3. Demonstrate familiarity with the mechanical properties of materials.
4. Demonstrate familiarity with torsion forces placed on circular shafts.
5. Demonstrate familiarity with stresses placed on beams.
6. Demonstrate familiarity with shear forces and bending moments in beams.
7. Demonstrate familiarity with the principles of beam design for strength.
8. Demonstrate familiarity with the deflection forces placed on beams.
9. Demonstrate familiarity with combined forces placed on design components.
TOPICAL OUTLINE:
I. Simple stresses
A. Introduction to strength of materials
B. Normal and shear stresses
C. Direct normal stresses
D. Bearing stresses
E. Normal stresses
F. Inclined planes of stress
G. Thin walled pressure vessels
II. Strains
A. Linear strain
B. Hooke's law
C. Axial deformation
D. Thermal stresses
E. Poison's ratio
F. Shear strain
III. Mechanical properties of materials
A. Tension tests
B. Stress-strain diagrams
C. Compression tests
D. Allowable stresses and factor of safety
E. Stress concentrations
IV. Shear forces and bending moments
A. Types of beams
B. Types of loading
C. Beam reactions
D. Shear force and bending moment in beams
E. Diagrams
F. Formulas
V. Stresses in beams
A. Bending stresses
B. The flex formula
C. Allowable moment
D. Shear stress formulas
E. Composite beams
F. Reinforced concrete beams
G. Elastic analysis
H. Design of beams for strength
VI. Deflections of beams
A. Relationship between curvature and bending moment
B. The formula method
C. Superposition
D. Moment-area method
E. Moment diagram by parts
F. Application of moment-area method
VII. Combined stresses
A. Axial and bending stresses
B. Biaxial bending
C. Eccentrically loaded members
D. Double eccentricity
E. Inclined planes
F. Mohr's circle
G. Principle stresses and maximum shear stresses
VIII. Columns
IX. Connections
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Pueblo Community College |
PCC |
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Pikes Peak State College |
PPCC |
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