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STRENGTH OF MATERIALS I Name of the faculty: Name and type of the study: ECTS points Ex Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Mechanical Engineering First degree undergraduate (Bs) 4 S

No hours: L L P Ps Course goals: to acquaint students with basic methods of strength of materials especially with formulating strength conditions and also stiffness conditions Didactic methods: Students prepare a topics on concrete problem and discuss it with teacher. Grading criteria: written exam Subject contents: Introduction. Objectives of strength of materials. Body forces, surface forces and internal forces. Diagrams of internal forces. Definition of stress at point. Normal and shear stresses. Definition of shear and normal strains. Tension and compression of bars. Hookes law for pure tension. Formulation of strength and rigidity conditions. Basic mechanical properties of material: elasticity, plasticity, Young modulus, Poisson ratio. Standard test for tension. Strain energy due to elastic tension (compression). Cross-sectional properties. Static moments and center of area coordinates. Definition of second moment of area (geometrical moment of inertia), moment of deviation (centrifugal) and polar moment. Moments of inertia with respect to parallel axis Steiner theorem. Principal moment of inertia and principal directions. Torsion of circular bars (shafts). Torsional moments and twisting angles diagrams. Shear stress distribution due to pure torsion. Formulation of strength and rigidity conditions. Strain energy due to pure torsion. Bending. Pure bending and bending with shear. Normal and shear stress distribution. urawski formula. Deflections of beams - Euler theorem and Clebsch method, formulation of boundary condition. Design of beams according to strength condition and also rigidity condition. Analysis of stress and strain state. Generalized Hookes law for complex loading states. Plane stress and plane strain states. Graphical interpretation of stresses and strains at point - Mohrs circle. Principal stresses and strains and principal directions. Complex loading states. Effort hypothesis: Huber-von Mises strain energy of distortion theory and Tresca maximal shear stress theory. Reduced stresses and strength criteria for threedimensional loading. Statically determined plane frames. Stability of structures. Elastic and elasto-plastic flexural buckling of prismatic bars. Loss of stability and critical force according to Euler. Inelastic buckling Tetmajer and Ostenfeld formulas. Course objectives: skill of making diagrams of internal forces, calculating stresses and strains in uniaxial and complex loading states, formulating of strength and stiffness conditions, obtaining critical loading and designing of cross-sections. Basic textbooks: 1. Timoshenko S. Strength of Materials, part I, part II, third edition, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc. 1956. 2. Timoshenko S., Young D.H., Theory of Structures, first edition, McGrow-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1945. 3. Ross Carl T.F., Case J., Chilver A., Strength of materials and Structures, Elsevier, 1999. 4. Patnaik S., Hopkins D., Strength of Materials, A New Unified Theory for the 21 Century, 1

Elsevier, 2004. Supplemental textbooks/materials: Instructors: Lecture, Exercises A. Tomczyk, Ph.D. Eng. Course syllabus prepared by: A. Tomczyk, Ph.D. Eng.