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    Mechanics of Solids

    ESO202A

    3L-1T-0P-0A-11

    Lecture: M-Th-F (L16) : 10 - 11 am


    Tutorials: W 10 – 11 am

    Instructor: Dr. C.S. UPADHYAY

    Office: NWTF 210H


    Phone: 05122597936
    Email: [email protected]

    Office hours: 4-5 pm (M,W,Th)


    TUTORIAL DETAILS

    ROOM SECTION INSTRUCTOR INSTRUCTOR DETAILS

    TB103 F1 Dr. Rajesh Kitey [email protected]

    TB104 F2 Dr. Tanmoy Mukhopadhyay [email protected]

    TB105 F3 Dr. Sumit Basu [email protected]

    TB106 F4 Deepankar Das [email protected]

    L12 F5 Chidanan M Jadar [email protected]

    L13 F6 Sachin Kumar [email protected]

    L14 F7 Rajat Avasthi [email protected]

    L15 F8 Adrita Kundu [email protected]


    THE COURSE
    TEMPLATE
    LECTURE-WISE DISTRIBUTION
    ITEM TOPIC DETAIL LECTURES
    (TENTATIVE)
    1 Fundamentals of mechanics Motivation, Continuum, Force, Moment, Static Equilibrium, Idealizations; 4
    Supports, Effect of friction
    2 Mechanics of deformable bodies Basic philosophy, uni-axial loading case, statically determinate and indeterminate 5
    problems, deformation based analysis of planar trusses, some special cases

    3 Slender members: Idealized effect of forces Distributed forces, resultants and their relationships, examples 4

    4 Concept of stress and strain Forces of interaction, intensity and stress tensor, Cauchy tetrahedron, 6
    equilibrium; plane stress, transformation, Mohr’s circle.
    Infinitesimal line element, concept of strain, transformation, Mohr’s circle, strain
    measurement techniques.
    5 Stress-strain relationship Tensile test, idealization, linear elastic relationship (Hooke’s Law), isotropic 5
    materials, strain energy, yielding in ductile materials.
    6 Bending analysis Symmetric sections, pure bending, equilibrium, state of stress, energy, yielding. 4

    7 Deflection due to bending Moment-curvature relationship, integration, superposition, energy method 4

    8 Torsion of circular shaft Idealization, state of stress, torque-rate of twist relation, solid and hollow shafts, 3
    yielding
    9 Energy methods Castigliano’s theorem for indeterminate structures. 2

    10 Buckling of columns Euler buckling, effect of support conditions 3

    11 TOTAL LECTURES 40
    SOME COURSE DETAILS
    • ATTENDANCE – Expect you to attend ALL lectures and tutorials

    • EVALUATION:

    MODE DETAILS MARKS ALLOCATED


    Quizzes 4 4X5 = 20
    Mid-Term examination 1 30
    End-Semester examination 1 40
    Tutors marks Assignment, Attendance 10

    BOOKS

    - TEXTBOOK: An Introduction to the Mechanics of Solids – Crandall, Dahl, Lardner (3rd Edition)

    - REFEFENCE BOOKS: (1) Introduction to Solid Mechanics – IH Shames, JM Pitarresi


    (2) Mechanics of materials – Gere & Timoshenko

    - Notes will be put up regularly on the HelloIITK site


    Some thoughts on the course…

    • JEE mechanics – primarily rigid, particle-like, motion in a straight line ~ can you tell when the string will break?
    • Engineering design – desired functionality, desired cost and material, desired life (i.e. safe performance).
    • Engineering ingenuity – effective idealized models to visualize how it will perform; if it will fail or not.
    • “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler”
    • Transition from rigid to deformable – mechanics at infinitesimal level
    • Concept of continuum – at any scale no holes or cuts – IDEALIZATION
    • Concept of effective statistical homogeneity – cut down to small bits, and you see the same material – never really true
    (grains, inclusions, residues).

    * All figures from various sources on the internet


    Some thoughts continued…

    • A deformable continuum is significantly different from a rigid continuum. This is because the deformable continuum can store
    energy, as internal energy, by virtue of its deformation. In contrast, for a rigid body there is no deformation and hence no
    internal energy stored - All the work done on the body manifests as potential energy (by virtue of height) and kinetic energy of
    body.
    • We need to study how the body deforms. This depends on the loading, material of the body, its shape, support conditions.
    • In this course we will get into all these questions, along with the follow-up question – can the body sustain any load, or it has
    a break (or failure) point?

    • The question about failure becomes critical when you are designing structures to perform certain specified functions. Can the
    body perform those safely? How to make it perform safely through choice of material, shape, etc?
    • We could have started with the most general definitions, and the most general shapes and materials. Rather, in order to initiate
    you, and to develop a very good understanding of mechanics for a relevant example, we will focus on slender structures.
    • Slender structures are abundantly visible in functional structures around us – antennae, towers, cranes, wings of planes, rotor
    blades, trusses, our limbs, etc. How does one design them? What are the loads that these structures will be subjected to?

    • Simplifications are integral to engineering thinking. The course will take you through several such potent simplifications –
    that make the job easier without compromising on the resolution of the underlying physics.
    • Engineering design is heavily dependent on robust simplified models – this allows the designer to play with ideas, to try new
    concepts, to test ideas and to finally converge to a reliable design. Imagine if this could not be done, then we would learn by
    actually making a structure, testing it and (if lucky) figuring out the flaws in the design. This would be unsustainable.

    • Need systematic analysis (and testing) based design.


    Shoulders of stalwarts…

    • Mechanics has grown due to the incredible genius of stalwarts – Archimedes, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo, Newton, Euler,
    Sophie Germain, Bernoullis, St. Venant, Timoshenko, Prandlt – to name a few.
    • Most of these greats had a good grounding in mathematics, and had the special gift of being able to apply it to real problems.
    • Mathematical questions in mechanics have existed since ages – how to represent forces of interaction, relation between forces
    and motion, etc.
    • Galileo’s beam stoked the discussion on bending theory and it took almost 100 years for satisfactory answers to come out.
    • Euler-Bernoulli worked on the mathematical definitions of bending of beams – something that found its relevance almost 150
    years later when the Eiffel tower and the Giant Ferris wheel of London were being built!
    • Newton finally solved the question of the dependence of attraction of two heavenly bodies on distance between them.
    • Robert Hooke understood the behavior of a spring – which led to generalizations in three-dimensional mechanics.
    POPULAR DESIGNS – FAILURES – DESIGN EVOLUTION?
    • The fear of blind-spots?

    * Source of figures: internet


    INSTANCES OF FAILURE: DESIGN LESSONS

    CRANE COLLAPSE – REASONS?


    INSTANCES OF FAILURE: DESIGN LESSONS

    FATIGUE DAMAGE IN AN AIRCRAFT


    NOVEL DESIGNS

    CANTILEVER STRUCTURE
    DESIGN QUESTIONS:

    RAILWAY CLIP

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