Syllabus of ME214 after Mid-Semester (24 Lectures)

1. Torsion of non-circular bars: Saint Venant's semi-inverse method.

2. Prandtl stress function.
3. Elliptical and triangular shaft, shaft with cut out
4. Rectangular shaft, hollow shafts, thin tubes narrow rectangular shaft.
5. Membrane analogy.
6. Advanced problem in beam bending: Unsymmetrical bending: pure bending
of prismatic and composite beams.
7. Curved beam.
8. Bending of beam with thin profile section - shear flow, determination of shear
center.
9. Elastic stability: Buckling of mechanisms.
10. Buckling of straight and bent beam-columns.
11. Energy Methods: Strain energy due to axial, torsion, bending and
transverse shear.
12. Comparison of strain energies due to bending and shear.
13. Castiglianos theorem, reciprocity theorem etc.
14. Contact Stresses: Geometry of contact surface, methods of computing
contact stress.
15. Deflection of bodies in point contact and line contact with normal load.
16. Stress Concentration: Plate with circular hole.
17. Introduction to plate theory (Kirchhoff's theory).
Torsion of non-circular bars: Saint Venant's semi-inverse
method

e.g. prismatic bar with solid section


Torsion of prismatic bar
Torsion of prismatic bars of any cross-section twisted by couples at
the end.
Assumption:
1. The shaft does not contain any holes the axis.
2. Cross-section rotates about an axis.
3. Twist per unit length being .
4. A section at distance z from the fixed end will, therefore, rotate
through z.
5. A point P(x, y) in this section will undergo a displacement rz, as
shown in Fig.

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The components of this displacement are

The point P may undergo a displacement uz in z direction. =>

warping.
The z displacement => function (x, y) and is independent of z. =>
warping is the same for all normal cross-sections.
Substituting for sin and cos , St. Venants displacement
components are

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=> Calculate the associated strain components.

From the definition we have,

And, ;

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From the Hookes law:

Where,

Therefore substituting the values, we get :

Corresponding to the They should satisfy

assumed displacement the Equations of
Components. Equilibrium

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The equations of equilibrium given by Eq.

Substituting the stress components, the first two equations are

satisfied identically.
From the third equation, we obtain

Hence, the warping function is harmonic (i.e. it satisfies the Laplace

equation) everywhere in region R.

Let us consider the boundary conditions:


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Boundary Conditions:
Fx , Fy and Fz :
components of stress
on a plane with
outward normal,
n (nx , ny and nz ) at a
point on the surface.
Then, we have:

No forces => acting on the boundary.

The normal n to the surface is perpendicular to the z axis, i.e. nz 0.

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+ nz 0

These are identical.

Each torsion problem reduced to problem of finding

which satisfies these Equations.

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On the end faces

Must be equivalent to the applied torque.

The resultant forces in the x and y directions should vanish.

The resultant force in x-direction:

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