UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Materials

CE 130, Section 1, Fall 2008

Instructor: F. Armero

CE 130 Mechanics of Materials I

Section 1, Course Information
Topic

Reading

Homework

9/3
9/5
9/8
9/10
9/12

Introduction
Concept of stress
Stresses (cont.); stress based design
Intro. to strain, stress-strain relations
Axial bars; Saint-Venant principle
Statically indeterminate problems
General concepts of strain

1-12
1-3, 1-68
1-4, 1-911
2-15, 2-7
3-13
4-14
5-15

1-9,19
1-32,52
2-3, 3-8
3-14,26
4-7,22
4-30, 5-1

8
9
10

9/15
9/17
9/19

Generalized Hookes law

Thin-walled pressure vessels
Elastic torsion of circular shafts (1)

2-6, 5-68
5-910
6-14

5-4,7
5-22,24
6-2,3

11
12
13

9/22
9/24
9/26

Elastic torsion of circular shafts (2)

Inelastic torsion of circular shafts
Torsion of general bars

6-59
6-13
6-1416

6-24,26
6-36,48
6-58,59

14
15
16

9/29
10/1
10/3

Equilibrium of beams
Shear and bending-moment diagrams
Review for Midterm #1

7-18
7-913

7-13,18
7-43,60

17
18
19

10/6
10/8
10/10

Midterm exam (through # 13)

Pure bending (1)
Pure bending (2)

8-13
8-47, 8-9

8-2,6
8-12,53

20
21
22

10/13
10/15
10/17

Inelastic bending
Bending with axial loads
Shear stresses in beams (1)

8-37,45
9-13,26
10-2,7

23
24
25

10/20
10/22
10/24

Shear stresses in beams (2)

Transformation of stress
Principal stresses

8-8
9-14
10-13
10-47, 10-9

26
27
28

10/27
10/29
10/31

Mohrs circle
Transformation of strain, rosettes
Yield and fracture criteria

29

11/3

30
31

11/5
11/7

The beam equation and integration

Review for Midterm #2 (previous week
homework due this Wednesday)
Midterm exam (from lecture #14 to #28)

Lect.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7

Date
8/27
8/29

11-13
11-45, 11-8
11-67, 11-9
11-1014
12-17
14-17

From Engineering Mechanics of Solids, by E.P. Popov, second edition.

10-8,26
11-5,7
11-19,21
11-25,29
11-52,59
12-7,8
14-11,15,23

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Instructor: F. Armero

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33
34

Date
11/10
11/12
11/14

Topic
Singularity functions
Superposition
Statically indeterminate beams

Reading
7-14, 14-8
14-9, 14-11
15-4

Homework
14-45,47
14-49,56
15-38,39

35
36
37

11/17
11/19
11/21

Strain energy
Basic energy methods
Energy theorems

3-56, 5-3
17-13
18-14

3-30, 17-1
17-2,3
17-11,18

38
39

11/24
11/26

Virtual work methods

Applications

17-46
17-7

17-24,27
17-32,39

40
41
42

12/1
12/3
12/5

Introduction to stability theory

Buckling of columns (1)
Buckling of columns (2)

16-13
16-45
16-68

16-1,3
16-9,12
16-13,14

43

12/8

44

12/10

Applications
Review (previous week homework due
this Wednesday)

Time and location:

MWF 11:00am12:00noon, 60 Evans.
Instructor:
Francisco Armero
Oce hours: 713 Davis Hall, time to be announced.
Phone: (510) 643-0813
e-mail address: armero@ce.berkeley.edu
WEB page: http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/armero/CE130
GSI: Time and location of oce hours to be announced.
Required textbook: (On reserve in the library for 2 hour loan)
Egor P. Popov Engineering Mechanics of Solids, second edition, Prentice-Hall.
Homework:
The syllabus above includes the reading and homework assignments of the course. The
problems assigned in one week (that is, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday classes) are due
the following Friday, at the beginning of the class. No late homework will be accepted.
The solutions will be available at the course website by the following Monday evening.
Please note the special arrangements for the week of the second midterm exam (homework
due on Wednesday 11/5) and the last lecture of the course (homework due on Wednesday
12/10).
Grading system:
Homework 20%, midterms 30%, nal 50%.

(Closed-book midterms and nal)