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U23ME482 Strength of Materials

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1. Course Description
The Strength of Materials course provides a fundamental understanding of the behaviour of materials
under various loads and deformations. Through comprehensive exploration, students understands the
principles of stress, strain, and deformation of materials for various engineering applications.
2. Course Objectives:
1. To understand the concepts of stress, strain, principal stresses and principal planes.
2. To study the concept of shearing force and bending moment due to external loads in determinate
beams and their effect on stresses.
3. To determine stresses and deformation in circular shafts and helical spring due to torsion.
4. To compute slopes and deflections in determinate beams by various methods.
5. To study the stresses and deformations induced in thin and thick shells.
3. Syllabus
Unit-I: Stress, Strain and Deformation of Solids
Rigid bodies and deformable solids; Tension, Compression and Shear Stresses; Theories of Failure;
Deformation of simple and compound bars; Thermal stresses; Elastic constants; Volumetric strains;
Stresses on inclined planes: principal stresses and principal planes; Mohr’s circle of stress.
Computer Aided Simulation: Stress, Strain analysis in simple plates, bars (Demonstration Only)
Unit-II: Transverse Loading on Beams and Stresses in Beam
Beams: types; transverse loading on beams; Shear force and bending moment in beams: Cantilevers,
simply supported beams and over hanging beams; Theory of simple bending; bending stress
distribution; Load carrying capacity; Proportioning of sections; Flitched beams; Shear stress
distribution.
Computer Aided Simulation: Bending stress analysis for different type’s beams, supports and load
(Demonstration Only).
Unit-III: Torsion & Springs
Torsion formulation stresses and deformation in circular and hollows shafts; Stepped shafts; Deflection
in shafts fixed at the both ends; Stresses and Deflection in helical springs, Laminated Leaf springs.
Unit-IV: Deflection of Beams
Computation of slopes and deflections in beams: Double Integration method, Macaulay’s method, Area
moment method, Conjugate beam; Strain energy; Maxwell’s reciprocal theorems.
Computer Aided Simulation: Simulation of beams subjected to transverse load (Demonstration Only)
Unit-V: Columns and Cylinders
Euler’s column theory; critical load for prismatic columns with different end conditions; Effective
length; limitations; Rankine-Gordon formula; Eccentrically loaded columns; middle third rule; core of
a section; Thin cylindrical and spherical shells; stresses and change in dimensions; thick cylinders;
Compound cylinders; shrinking on stresses.
Computer Aided Simulation: Buckling load simulation for columns (Demonstration Only)
List of Experiments:
1. Conduct a tensile test to observe and plot stress-strain behaviour of given specimen under
load. Discuss.
2. Conduct an experiment to calculate the ultimate shear strength of the given specimen under
double shear load. Discuss.
3. Perform the hardness test to identify the indentation diameter and height on the given
specimens with Brinell and Rockwell hardness setup.
4. Conduct the suitable test to determine the toughness of the given specimen by applying
sudden load in izod and charpy test.
5. Effect of hardening- Improvement in hardness and impact resistance of steels.
6. Tempering - Improvement Mechanical properties – Comparison (i) Unhardened specimen
(ii) Quenched Specimen and (iii) Quenched and tempered specimen
7. Calculate the section modulus of the simply supported beam to compute the bending stress
and young’s modulus for the given specimen.
8. Torsion test on circular shaft –compute the shear stress and modulus of rigidity
9. Tests on springs – compression - load deformation characteristics, stiffness, shear stress,
Shear Modulus, energy
10. Strain measurement using Rosette Strain Gauge.
Text Books:
1. Bansal, R.K., “Strength of Materials”, Laxmi Publications (P) Ltd., 2017
2. Jindal U.C., “Strength of Materials”, Asian Books Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2007
3. Rajput R.K. “Strength of Materials (Mechanics of Solids)", S.Chand& company Ltd., New Delhi,
7th edition, 2018.
4. Rattan S.S., “Strength of Materials", Tata McGraw Hill Education Pvt .Ltd., New Delhi, 2017.
References:
Reference Books:
1. Egor. P.Popov “Engineering Mechanics of Solids” Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi, 2001
2. Subramanian R., “Strength of Materials”, Oxford University Press, Oxford Higher Education
Series, 2007.
3. Hibbeler, R.C., “Mechanics of Materials”, Pearson Education, Low Price Edition, 2007
4. Ferdinand P. Been, Russell Johnson, J.r. and John J. Dewole “Mechanics of Materials”, Tata
McGraw Hill Publishing ‘co. Ltd., New Delhi, 2005.
Videos:
1. www.freevideolectures.com/courses/2361/som/
2. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKFgysZC4VC
Web references:
1. www.forum.jntuworld.com
Online Courses:
 1. https://www.youtube.com/nptel/som
2. https://www.youtube.com/nptel/iitm
4.Course Outcomes
CO. No. Course Outcome BTL POs PSOs
(Create) Create Stress- Strain model for any
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Mechanical Component
(Apply) Apply the fundamental principles to
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points in beams
(Analyze) Analyze stress and deformation induced
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in circular shafts due to torsion
(Apply) Calculate slope and deflection in beams
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using different methods.
(Analyze) Analyze stresses and deformation of
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columns and thin shells for applied pressures.
(Evaluate) To assess the behaviour of materials
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different load conditions
(Evaluate) Estimate and interpret the effect of heat
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treatment on different materials
(Evaluate) Measure the deflection of beams at
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different load conditions.
(Evaluate) Evaluate the spring properties under
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compression load
(Analyze) Characterize the microstructure of given
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samples
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