Subject Syllabus
CE-305 - Strength of Materials
CIVIL · Semester 3
Course Modules
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Concept of Elastic body stress and Strain, Hooke's law, Various types of stress and strains, Elastic constantsStresses in compound bars, composite and tapering bars, Temperature stressesComplex Stress and Strains – Two dimensional and three dimensional stress systemNormal and tangential stresses, Principal Planes, Principal Stresses and Strains, Mohr's circle of stresses
Theory of simple bending, Concept of pure bending and bending stress, Equation of bending, Neutral axis, Section-ModulusDifferential equation of the elastic curveDetermination of bending stresses in simply supported, Cantilever and Overhanging beams subjected to point load and uniformly distributed loadingBending stress distribution across a section of beamShearing Stress and shear stress distribution across a section in Beams
Theory of columns, Slenderness ratio, Direct and bending stresses in short columns, Kern of a sectionBuckling and stability, Euler's buckling/crippling load for columns with different end conditions, Rankin's formulaEccentric loads and the Secant formula, Imperfections in columnsThin Pressure Vessels: cylinders and spheres; Stress due to internal pressure, Change in diameter and volume; Theories of failure
Concept of pure torsion, Torsion equation, Determination of shear stress and angle of twist of shafts of circular sectionTorsion of solid and hollow circular shafts, Analyses of problems based on combined Bending and TorsionUnsymmetrical Bending: Principal moment of Inertia, Product of Inertia, Bending of a beam in a plane which is not a plane of symmetry, Shear centerCurved beams: Pure bending of curved beams of rectangular, circular and trapezoidal sections, Stress distribution and position of neutral axis