Syllabus MOM
Syllabus MOM
Unit 1:
Simple Stresses and Strains-Concept of stress and strain, St. Venant’sprinciple,stress and strain
diagram, 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 moduli and the relationship between them,
elongation of various bars under self load and external loads – Bars of varying section –
composite bars – Temperature stresses.
Compound Stresses and Strains- Two dimensional system, stress at a point on a plane,
principal stresses and principal planes, Mohr circle of stress, ellipse of stress and their
applications. Two dimensional stress-strain system, principal strains and principal axis of strain,
circle of strain and ellipse of strain. Relationship between elastic constants.
Strain Energy – Resilience – Gradual, sudden, impact and shock loadings – simple applications.
Unit 2:
Bending stress and Shear stresses: –Theory of bending: M/I = f/y = E/R - Neutral axis –
Determination of bending stresses – Section modulus of rectangular and circular sections (Solid
and Hollow), I,T.
Shear Stresses- Derivation of formula –Shear stress distribution across various beam sections
like rectangular, circular, triangular, I, T angle sections.
Unit 3:
Deflection of beams- Relations between slope, deflection and radius of curvature, calculation of
deflection by integration, moment area and unit load method.
Columns and struts: Euler’s theory of initially straight columns, critical loads for different end
condition of columns, eccentric loading, columns with small and initial curvature, empirical
formulae.
Unit 4: Thin and Thick Shells: thin cylinders - hoop stress, longitudinal stress, built up
cylinders; spherical shells; Thick shells – thick cylinders, lame’s theorem; thick spherical shells.
Torsion: torsion of solid and hollow circular shafts, stepped and composite shafts, closed coiled
helical spring subjected to axial loads and axial twists, spring in parallel and series.
Unit 5:
Theories of failure- Introduction to elastic theories of failure, elementary idea of Rankine
theory, St. Venant theory, Tresca theory, Haigh’s theory and Von Mises’s theories of failure.
List of Experiments:
Tension test
Impact test
Shear test
Investigation of Hook’s law that is the proportional relation between force and stretching in
elastic deformation,
Determination of torsion and deflection,
Measurement of forces on supports in statically determinate beam,