Solid Mechanics, also known as Mechanics of Materials or Strength of Materials is a branch of applied mechanics that deals with the behaviour of solid bodies subjected to various types of loading. The principal objective of mechanics of materials is to determine the stresses, strains, and displacements in structures and their components due to the loads acting on them. Understanding these characteristics helps to gain insight into the behaviour of structures under normal circumstances as well as during extreme events. Mechanics of Materials constitutes a fundamental course for students belonging to civil, mechanical, aerospace, biomedical, petroleum, and nuclear engineering. Furthermore, many students from such diverse fields as materials science, industrial engineering, and architecture, also find it useful to study mechanics of materials. The theoretical basis of this subject dates back to early seventeenth century and active research on various aspects of Solid Mechanics continues till today.
Students completing the course should be able to:
Understand different force mechanisms and internal stresses that may arise is solids
Realize the importance of consideration of stresses and strains for structural design
Get ready for advanced courses in their structural engineering career
Efficiently communicate complex concepts to technical as well as non-technical audience
Engineering Mechanics Review
Concept of Stress and Strain – Tension, Compression and Shear
Axially Loaded Members
Torsion
Shear Force and Bending Moment Diagrams
Stresses in Beams (Part A – Pure Bending)
Stresses in Beams (Part B – Shear Stresses and Thin-Walled Members)
Transformation of Stress and Strain
Deflection of Beams
Buckling of Columns
Gere and Goodno – Mechanics of Materials, Cengage Learning Publishers
R.C. Hibbeler - Mechanics of Materials, Pearson Publishers
Popov and Balan – Engineering Mechanics of Solids, Prentice Hall Publishers
Gere and Timoshenko – Mechanics of Materials, CBS Publishers
Paul S. Stief – Mechanics of Materials, Pearson Publishers