Strength of Materials - I
Strength of Materials - I
Strength of Materials - I
STRENGTH OF MATERIALS - I
UNIT – I
Simple Stresses and Strains : Elasticity and plasticity – Types of stresses and strains – Hooke’s law
– stress – strain diagram for mild steel – Working stress – Factor of safety – Lateral strain, Poisson’s
ratio and volumetric strain – Elastic modulii and the relationship between them – Bars of varying
section – composite bars – Temperature stresses. Elastic constants.
Strain Energy – Resilience – Gradual, sudden, impact and shock loadings – simple applications.
UNIT – II
Shear Force and Bending Moment : Definition of beam – Types of beams – Concept of shear force
and bending moment – S.F and B.M diagrams for cantilver, simply supported and overhanging beams
subjected to point loads, uniformly distributed load, uniformly varying loads and combination of these
loads – Point of contraflexure – Relation between S.F., B.M and rate of loading at a section of a
beam.
UNIT – III
Flexural Stresses: Theory of simple bending – Assumptions – Derivation of bending equation: M/I =
f/y = E/R - Neutral axis – Determination of bending stresses – Section modulus of rectangular and
circular sections (Solid and Hollow), I,T, Angle and Channel sections – Design of simple beam
sections.
SHEAR STRESSES : Derivation of formula – Shear stress distribution across various beam sections
like rectangular, circular, triangular, I, T angle sections.
UNIT – IV
Principal Stresses and Strains : Introduction – Stresses on an inclined section of a bar under axial
loading – compound stresses – Normal and tangential stresses on an inclined plane for biaxial
stresses – Two perpendicular normal stresses accompanied by a state of simple shear – Mohr’s circle
of stresses – Principal stresses and strains – Analytical and graphical solutions.
Theories of Failure: Introduction – Various theories of failure - Maximum Principal Stress Theory,
Maximum Principal Strain Theory, Strain Energy and Shear Strain Energy Theory (Von Mises
Theory).
UNIT – V
Deflection of Beams : Bending into a circular arc – slope, deflection and radius of curvature –
Differential equation for the elastic line of a beam – Double integration and Macaulay’s methods –
Determination of slope and deflection for cantilever and simply supported beams subjected to point
loads, U.D.L, Uniformly varying load-Mohr’s theorems – Moment area method – application to simple
cases including overhanging beams.
Conjugate Beam Method: Introduction – Concept of conjugate beam method. Difference between a
real beam and a conjugate beam. Deflections of determinate beams with constant and different
moments of inertia.
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