Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology

Course number/name:
MECH 3650 Advanced Strength of Materials
Credits/contact hours:
3 credits, 2 class hour and 2 lab hours
Instructor/coordinator:
Malek Brahimi, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology
Text book/title/author/year
Strength and Applied Elasticity 5th Edition, Ansel C. Ugural and Saul K. Fenster,
Prentice Hall 2011, ISBN 0137079206
Specific course information
Catalog description:
Stress analysis, strain and stress relations, principal stresses, graphical method by
Mohrs circles of biaxial and triaxial cases, generalized Hookes law including
thermal strains, equations of equilibrium, plane strain and plane stress problems.
Failure theories and limit analysis. Euler critical loads for columns, curved beams,
thick-walled cylinders and rotating disks, contact stresses, strain gauges and their
application and stress concentrations.
Pre/Corequisites:
MAT1575, MECH 1233
Required/elective/selected elective:
Required for Mechanical Engineering Technology
Course learning objectives:
1. Understand the definition of stress, stress components, two dimensional stress, principal
stresses, and graphical method by Mohrs circle.
2. Concentrated stress
3. Understand Stress-Strain diagrams, Hookes law, and generalized Hookes law.
4. Understand and solve mechanical problems in thermal strains,
5. Ability to analyze and solve problems in plane stress and plain strain.
6. Understand the different type of failure modes, and limit analysis.
7. Ability to compute the radius of gyration, specify a suitable value for the end-fixed value
(k) and determine the effective length.
8. Use the Euler formula for the analysis and design of columns.
9. Ability to determine the largest compressive and tensile stresses in curved members.
10. Thick-walled cylinders and rotating disks
11. Understand Contact stresses,
12. Strain gauges and their applications
Course addresses ABET student outcomes: 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d, 3e, 3i, and PC-1

Brief list of topics to be covered:

Analysis of Stress. Definition of stresses, components of stresses, internal force and stress
relations, variation of stress within a body, principal stresses and maximum shear stress,
Mohrs circle.

Strain and Stress. Introduction, Deformation, state of strain at a point, stress-strain

diagram, Hookes law, generalized Hookes law.

Two dimensional problems in elasticity. Fundamental principles of analysis, plain strain

problems, plain stress problems, thermal stresses, stresses due to concentrated loads,
stress distribution near concentrated load acting on a beam, curved beams.

Failure criteria and bending of beams. Failure by yielding, failure by fracture, maximum
shearing stress theory, maximum distortion theory. Pure bending of beams, bending of
simply supported beams, bending and shearing stress, deflection of beams.

Torsion of prismatic bars. Elementary theory of torsion of circular bars, general solution
of the torsion problem.

Concentrated stresses.

Thick-walled cylinders and rotating disks

Contact stresses

Understand strain gauges and their applications

Prepared by: Dr. Malek Brahimi

Fall 2013