Course
Basic Strength of Materials
Introduction to stress and strain – Hooke’s law, stress and strain transformations, principal stresses and strains – Torsion of circular sections – Thin-walled pressure vessels – Bending and shearing stresses in beams of symmetric cross-sections – Deflections of statically determinate beams by various methods – Stresses due to combined loading, theories of failure. Introduction of theory of elasticity, field equations, Airy’s stress – function, two-dimensional problems in Cartesian coordinates, Lame’s solution for thick cylinders.
Course structure & Assessments
4 credit course, weekly online assignments, 2 in-person invigilated quizzes, 1 in-person invigilated end term exam For details, visit Academics.
| Week 1 | Basic properties of materials and idealizations: Isotropy, homogeneity, Linear behaviour and Elasticity. 1D and 2D idealizations of structures |
| Week 2 | Introduction to stress and strain – Hooke’s law, Axial loading and shear loading |
| Week 3 | stress and strain transformations, principal stresses and strains |
| Week 4 | Thin-walled pressure vessels; Bending stresses in beams of symmetric cross-sections |
| Week 5 | Bending stresses in beams of symmetric cross-sections |
| Week 6 | Deflections of statically determinate beams by various methods; statically indeterminate beams |
| Week 7 | Torsion of circular sections |
| Week 8 | Stresses due to combined loading, theories of failure. |
| Week 9 | Introduction of theory of elasticity, field equations |
| Week 10 | Compatibility equations and Airy’s stress function |
| Week 11 | Two-dimensional problems in Cartesian coordinates, Lame’s solution for thick cylinders. |