City College of New York, CUNY

ME 330 – Mechanics of Materials

(Section KL2)
Spring 2019
Textbook: Mechanics of Materials, Beer, Johnston, DeWolf, and Mazurek, 7e, 2016, McGraw-
Hill. ISBN: 0073398233/ 9780073398235
Class schedule: Tue.& Th.: 9:00 – 10:50AM, Location: NAC 4/130
Instructor: Jackie Li, office 227, phone#: 212-650-5207, e-mail: j.li@ccny.cuny.edu
Date Section Topics Assignments Due
1/29 1.1-2 Introduction – Concept of Stress HW1:1.3,7,20,25,
2/7
1/31 1.3-5 Component of Stress; Factor of Safety 29,37,48,54
2/5 2.1-3 Stress and Strain – Axial Loading HW2: 2.1,13,19,26,35,42,54,
2/14
2/7 2.4-9 Hooke’s Law; Poisson’s Ratio 55
2/12 College closed HW3: 2.66,68,81,84,
2/21
2/14 2.10-13 Stress Concentration, Plastic Behavior 93,102,108,122
2/19 3.1 Torsion –Stresses in Torsion HW4: 3.1,9,18,28,32,38,49,57,
2/28
2/21 3.2-5 Angle of Twist; Shafts; Stress Concentration 67,77,81,88
2/26 4.1-3 Pure Bending – in Elastic range HW5: 4.3,10,19,25,33,
3/7
2/28 4.4-5 Composites, Stress Concentration 37,40,45,53,55,61,65
3/5 5.1 Shear and Bending Diagram HW6: 5.7,16,26,30,
3/14
3/7 5.2-3 Relations among w, V, and M; Design of Beams 41,46,60,64, 69,71,79,85
3/12 6.1-2 Shearing Stresses in a Beam HW7: 6.2,12,19,26,28,
3/21
3/14 6.3-4 Shearing Stress in Thin-Walled Members 31,37,49,56
3/19 9.1-4 Deflection of Beams HW8: 9.3,11,24,30,65,76,79,
3/28
3/21 9.5-6 Moment-Area Method 91,97,104,119,122
3/26 Review for the midterm
3/28 Midterm Exam
4/2 5.4 HW9: 5.103,108,115,118
Singularity Functions 4/11
4/4 9.3 9.37,45,50,62
4/9 7.1-2 Transformation of Stress, Mohr’s Circle (2-D) HW10: 7.2,12,18,27,33,41,58,
4/18
4/11 7.6-9 Stresses in Thin-Walled Pressure Vessels 61,100,114,140,155
4/16 8.1-2 Principal Stresses HW11: 8.4,12,17,27,
4/30
4/18 8.3 Stresses under Combined Loadings 8.31,40,51,53
4/19-
Spring Recess
28
4/30 4.7 Eccentric Axial Loading in a Plane ofSymmetry HW12:4.101,108,110,117,121,
5/7
5/2 4.8-9 Unsymmetric Loading 127,135,144,153
5/7 10.1 Columns – Euler’s Formula HW13: 10.2,11,19,28,
5/14
5/9 10.3 Design of Columns under a Centric Load 62,65,71,83
5/14 Review for final exam
5/21 Final exam
Grading: Homework 20%; quizzes 20%; midterm exam 30%; Final exam 30%.