B. Course Syllabi for Materials Engineering

1. Course Name: EM 324 Mechanics of Materials

2. Catalog Description: EM 324. Mechanics of Materials. Cr. 3. Plane stress, plane strain, stress-strain relationships, and elements of material behavior. Application of stress and deformation analysis to members subject to centric, torsional, flexural, and combined loadings. Elementary considerations of theories of failure, buckling.

3. Prerequisites: EM 274 or 307.

4. Textbook/Materials: Riley, W. F. , Sturges, L.D., and Morris, D.H, (1999). Mechanics of Materials, Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York.

5. Course Learning Objectives:
By completion of the course, students should be able to:

• Understand the concepts of stress at a point, strain at a point, and the stress-strain relationships for linear, elastic, homogeneous, isotropic materials.
• Determine the state of stress from strain rosette measurements.
• Calculate the stresses and strains associated with axial loads, torsional loads, bending loads, and pressurized circular cylinders both individually and in combination.
• Determine and illustrate principal stresses, maximum shearing stresses, and the stresses acting on any plane within a structural element.
• Determine and illustrate the deflections and rotations for axial loading, torsional loading, and bending.
• Calculate the Euler buckling load on a long, slender column.
• Apply stress concentration factors and utilize theory of failure criterion.

6. Topics Covered: Stress, Mohr’s circle analysis of stresses; Strain, strain rosette analysis; Stress-strain relationships, thermal effects, design loads; Axial loads, systems of axially-loaded bars; Thin-walled pressure vessels; Torsionally loaded shafts; Flexural loads, flexural stresses and shear stresses in beams; Principal stresses in beams; Deflection of beams using integration, singularity functions, and superposition methods; Combined loading situations; Buckling of columns, Euler formula.
7. Class/Laboratory Schedule: Three 50-minute class periods per week, 44 class periods total.

8. Professional Component: EM 324 contributes 3 credits towards Engineering Topics.

9. Relationship of Course to Program Learning Outcomes and Program Educational Objectives: Objectives: A, E Outcomes: a, e, g, i, l

10. Prepared by: AEEM Contact - Leroy D. Sturges, Associate Professor; 11/15/99, rev. 5/24/00 KPC