Scribd
Upload
186 views2 pages

AE 304 - Strength of Materials

This document provides an overview of a university course on Strength of Materials. The course is worth 4 credits over 12 weeks, with 4 hours of class per week. It covers topics such as stress and strain, compound stresses, shear force and bending moments in beams, beam deflection, stresses in beams, torsion of shafts, and columns and struts. Students will be assessed through internal marks worth 50 points and an external exam worth 50 points. Recommended textbooks and references are also listed.

Uploaded by

karthip08
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
186 views2 pages

AE 304 - Strength of Materials

This document provides an overview of a university course on Strength of Materials. The course is worth 4 credits over 12 weeks, with 4 hours of class per week. It covers topics such as stress and strain, compound stresses, shear force and bending moments in beams, beam deflection, stresses in beams, torsion of shafts, and columns and struts. Students will be assessed through internal marks worth 50 points and an external exam worth 50 points. Recommended textbooks and references are also listed.

Uploaded by

karthip08
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 2

Strength of Materials

Subject Code: AE 304


Credits: 4
Duration: 12 Weeks No. of
hours/week: 4
Internal Marks: 50
External Marks: 50

1. Simple stresses and strains: Introduction, Concept of Stress and strain, Types of Stresses and
Strains, Hookes law, Principle of superposition, Bars of varying cross section, Composite bars,
Elastic constants

Stress-strain curves: Behavior of common materials in simple tension and compression test,
Concept of factor of safety and permissible stress, Concept of Strain Energy
(09 hours)
2. Compound stresses: Stress components on oblique planes, General two dimensional stress
system: principal stresses and planes, maximum shear stress and planes Analytical & Mohrs
circle methods.
(06
hours)
3. Shear Force and Bending Moment in Beams: Types of supports, beams & loads - relation
between load, shear force and bending moment, Shear force and Bending moment diagrams for
statically determinate beams with various load combinations

(08 hours)
4. Deflection of Beams: Curvature of bending beam, Relation between slope, deflection and radius
of curvature, Double integration method for slope and deflection, General cases
(06 hours)
5. Stresses in beams: Theory of simple bending, Section modulus, Bending stress distribution for
various cross-sections, Shear stresses in beams and shear stress distribution in cross-sections
symmetrical about Y-Y axis.

(07 hours)
6. Torsion of Shafts: Torsion of solid and hollow circular shafts shear, power transmission capacity,
Torsion Equation, Torsional Rigidity
(06 hours)
7. Columns and struts: Short and long columns, Eulers formula for long columns with various
end conditions, effective length of column, slenderness ratio, limitations of Eulers theory,
Rankines formula
(06
hours)

Textbooks:
1. R.S. Khurmi, Strength of Materials, S. Chand Publications, 2006, ISBN : 9788121928229
2. S.S. Bhavikatti, Strength of Materials, 3rd edition, Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., ISBN: 978-
8125927914
3. R. K. Bansal, A textbook of strength of materials, Laxmi Publications Pvt. Ltd., revised 4th
edition, New Delhi.
4. James M. Gere & Barry J G, Mechanics of Materials, Cengage Learning, 8th Edition,
Brooks\Cole, 2009.
References:
1. Sadhu Singh, Strength of Materials, Khanna Publishers, 1980.
2. Ryder G.H., Strength of Materials, Macmillan India.
3. B C Punmia, Ashok Kumar Jain, & Arun Kumar Jain, Mechanics of Material, Laxmi Publication

You might also like