DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

Course Units Prerequisite Semester/SY Instructor & Department Head Dean Course Description : : : : : : MECH 325-Strength of Materials 5 MECH 315-Engineering Mechanics Second Semester, 1996-1997 Engr. Tomas U. Ganiron Jr, RCE, RJr.GE Engr. Jose M. Segovia, MSEE

Axial forces, stress, Strain, bending moment, shear and stress relationship, composite materials, Mohrs circle, combined stresses, deflection columns, and riveted and welded connections and reinforced beams. Course Objectives Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to do the following: 1. Understand the concepts of stress and strain; 2. Calculate stresses due to bending, shears, and torsion under plain and combined loading; 3. Analyze statically determinate and indeterminate structures; and 4. Determine the elastic stability of columns.
Course Distribution Week 1 2-3 4 5 TOPICS Orientation 1. Simple Stress and strain- Analysis of Internal Forces, Simple shearing and bearing stress, thin walled cylinders, Stress Strain diagram, Hookes law: Axial Deformation Statically indeterminate members, Thermal Stresses. 2. Shear and Moments Beams- Shear and Moment Interpretation of vertical shear and bending moment, relation between load, Shears, and Moment moving loads. 3. Stresses in Beams- Derivation of flexure formula, Economic sections Floor Framing Unsymmetrical beams, Analysis of flexure Action, Derivation of formula for horizontal shearing stress, design of flexure shear, Spacing of rivet or bolt in built beams. 4. Beam Deflections- Double integration method. Theorems of Area Moment method. Moment diagram by parts. Deflection of Cantilever beams. Deflections in simply supported beams misspend defection. Conjugate beams method. Deflection by the method. Deflections by the method of superposition. Prelim Examination 5. Restrained Beams- Redundant supports in propped and restrained beams. Application of double integration and superposition methods. Application of area moment methods. Restrained beam equivalent to simple beams. Design of restrained beams. 6. Continuous Beams- Generalized form of the three-moment equation. Factors and application of the three-moment equation. Reactions of continuous beams. Continuous beams with fixed ends. Deflections determined by the three- moment equation. Moment distribution. Midterm Examination 7. Reinforce Beams- Beams and different materials. Shearing stress and Deflection in composite beams. Reinforce concrete beams. Design of reinforces concrete beams. Beams of R.C., Shearing and bond stress.

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8. Columns- Critical load. Long columns by Euler formula and its limitations. Intermediate columns empirical formulas. Eccentrically loaded columns. Secant formula 9. Riveted and Welded Connections- Types of riveted joints. Strength of a simple lap joint. Strength of a complex butt joint. Stresses in riveted joints. Structural riveted joints. Eccentrically loaded riveted connections. Welded connections. Eccentrically loaded welded connections. Final Examination

Textbook Strength of Materials by Ferdinand P Singer and Andrew Pytel,Harper and Row H. Kogakusha Publishers, New York
References

Mechanics of Materials by SI Version, end edition by Ferdinand P. Beer and E Russel Johnston (Jr); McGraw Hill, India Mechanics of Materials-SI Version 2nd Edition by EP Popov, Prentice Hall India Introduction to Solid Mechanics by D.H Shames, Prentice Hall Inc. Elements of strength of Materials by Timoshenko and Young Strength of Materials by DS Bedi; Khanna book Publishing Company, New Delhi. 7. Strength of materials by R.S Lehri and A.S. Lehri, S.K Kataria and Sons.
Grades Distribution Components Seatworks/Short Quizzes Projects Assignments Attendance Prelim Exam Midterm Exam Final Exam Total % Distribution 10 4 4 2 15 15 50 100