1. INTRODUCTION                                                                                    

    Objective of the Course, Engineering Objects, Loads, Material Characteristics, Assumptions, Type of Problems

2. SIMPLE STRESS & STRAIN                                                                            

    Stress, Strain, Hooke’s Law, Elastic Constants, Strain Energy, Statically Indeterminate problems, Thermal Effects, Impact Loading

3. ANALYSIS OF STRESS & STRAIN (Plane Stress and Plane Strain)         

     Stress at a Point, Variation of Stress, Stress Transformation (2-D)

     Analysis of Strain, Strain-displacement relations, Strain transformation, Strain 

     Measurements

     Constitutive equations

4. SIMPLE BENDING & SHEAR STRESS                                                        

     Introduction, Pure Bending, Normal stresses in beams, Combined Bending and Direct Stress, Composite   Beams, Shear Stress, Shear Centre, Strain energy in bending

5. TORSION                                                                                                             

     Introduction, Torsion of Circular Shaft, Power Transmitted by a Shaft, Compound Shaft,Tapered Shaft, Strain Energy in Torsion, Combined Bending and Twisting, Torsion of Thin Walled Tubes, Open and Closed Coiled Springs

6. THIN & THICK CYLINDERS & SPHERES                                                    

     Introduction, Thin Walled Shells, Thick Shells, Compound Cylindrical Shell

7. DEFLECTIONS                                                                                                   

    Introduction, Equation of Elastic Curve, Methods for Determining Deflections (Double Integration, Macaulay’s Method, Moment-Area Method, Conjugate-beam method, Castigliano’s Theorem) 

8. COLUMNS                                                                                                           

     Introduction, Euler’s Theory for Long Columns, Rankine-Gordon Formula,  Empirical Formulae, Eccentrically Loaded Columns

9. THEORIES OF FAILURE                                                                                  

    Introduction, Different Theories of Failure

 

Reference Books:

1. Mechanics of Materials – Pytel and Kiusalaas
2. Mechanics of Materials –Gere and Timosheinko
3. Mechanics of Materials – Poppov
4. Strength of Materials- Ryder
5. Strngth of Materials- Pytel and Singer
6.  Strength of Materials –Crandal, Dahal and Lardener
7. Mechanics of Materials- Riley, Struges and Morris