MEC E 380 LEC B1 Advanced Strength of Materials

January - April 2025

https://eclass.srv.ualberta.ca/course/view.php?id=100590

Calendar description*3.5 (fi 8) (either term or Spring/Summer, 3-1S-0) Stress, strain, stress-strain relation, time-independent
and time-dependent behavior, virtual work and energy theorems, deformations, indeterminate systems,
matrix methods.

Objectives: Study advanced stress/strain analysis methods to examine load-carrying capacity of various
structures/structural components in terms of strength/stiffness criteria.

Lectures: TR 0930 - 1050 MEC 2-1

Seminars: F 0800 - 0850 MEC 2-1

Instructor: Professor X.D. Wang

Office: ICE 10-332, Tel: 492 4517, E-mail: xiaodong.wang@ualberta.ca
Office Hours: TR 1100-1200 in office, or by appointment

TAs/Markers: Arun Biradar, abiradar@ualberta.ca; Hala Khalaf, khalaf1@ualberta.ca, Ali Khalvandi,

khalvand@ualberta.ca
TA Office Hours: Monday 1500-1700, Wednesday 1230-1430, online on eClass, starting from Monday Jan 13.

Textbook: Advanced Strength and Applied Elasticity (4th, 5th, or 6th Editions), by A.C. Ugural and S.K.
Fenster, Prentice Hall.

Course Outline: Ugural, Chapters 1-3, 10, 5, 6. See attached course schedule for details.
Pre-requisite: MEC E 260, CIV E 270.

Examinations: Examinations are 'open book'. All calculators are allowed for the examinations. The exam must
be completed independently by students. Details of the exams will be discussed during the term.
Midterm Exam – 0930-1050, Thursday, February 13, 2025
Final Exam – 0830-1030, Tuesday, April 22, 2025 (to be confirmed)

Assignments: Weekly assignments will be posted on eClass. Students need to download the assignments,
complete and submit to eClass before the deadline.
Seminars: Problem solving sessions/worked examples/Quizzes
Suggested questions to be discussed will be posted on eClass before each seminar. There will
be four eClass-based open book quizzes during the seminars.

Final assessment: Seminar Quizzes (4 quizzes) 10%

Assignments (best 8 of 10) 20%
Midterm exam 25%
Final exam 45%

All quizzes will be eClass-based but all students must write the exams/quizzes in class in person. For midterm and
final examinations, samples will be provided before the exams. The final grade of the course will be determined based
on both the absolute mark and the mark distribution among students. (Note that if you miss the midterm examination,
for a valid reason, your final examination mark will be used to calculate the missing mark, i.e. equivalently the
missed weight will be transferred to the final examination.)

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Tentative Schedule

January - April 2025

Week Ending (Friday) Chapters in Textbook (5th Edition)

January 10 (Classes begin January 6) Introduction

January 17 Chapter 1, 1.1-1.10

January 24 Chapter 1, 1.12-1.14,1.16

January 31 Chapter 2, 2.1 - 2.7

February 7 Chapter 2, 2.8 – 2.16

February 14 (Midterm: 0930-1050. Feb. 13) Chapter 3, 3.1-3.8

February 21 Reading Week

February 28 Chapter 10, 10.1-10.3

March 7 Chapter 10, 10.4, 10.5

March 14 Chapter 10, 10.7-10.9

March 21 Chapter 5, 5.1-5.5

March 28 Chapter 5, 5.6-5.12

April 4 Chapter 6, 6.1-6.5

April 11 (Classes end April 9) Failure analysis and review

Final Exam: 1400-1600, April 19, 2024, to

be confirmed.
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ASSIGNMENT SCHEDULE
Assignments questions are posted on eClass

Assignment # Date Due Sections in Text General contents

1 January 17 Chapter 1 Stress analysis

2 January 24 Chapter 1 Stress analysis

3 January 31 Chapter 2 Strain analysis

4 February 7 Chapter 2 Strain analysis

Midterm Midterm Exam Week. No

Feb. 13 Assignment

Reading Week, No assignment

5 February 28 Chapter 3 Elasticity

6 March 7 Chapter 10 Energy method

7 March 14 Chapter 10 Energy method

8 March 21 Chapter 10 Energy method

9 March 28 Chapter 5 General bending

10 April 4 Chapter 5 General bending

WRITING ASSIGNMENT SOLUTIONS

Assignments should be submitted to eClass no later than 11:59pm on the due dates. No late assignments
will be accepted - FOR ANY REASON. Please upload your assignments earlier to avoid problems caused
by potential network issues.

Assignments are not only exercises in solving problems, they are also exercises in developing clear, logical
and concise (written) presentation skills. Consequently, assignment solutions must be written neatly,
clearly demonstrating (logical) methods and arguments used to arrive at the final answers.

Graders may mark all or only selected questions for each assignment. Graders will be instructed to assign
a mark of ZERO to any solution which:
• Is not written in a clear and concise manner.
• Does not demonstrate a clear and logical approach/method used to arrive at the final answer.

The ‘Assignments Grade’ (20%) will be based on eight best assignments.

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Seminars
Suggested seminar questions are posted on eClass

Seminar # Date Sections in Text General Contents

1 January 10 Chapter 1 Stress analysis

2 January 17 Chapter 1 Stress analysis

3 January 24 Chapter 2 Strain analysis, Quiz 1 (stress analysis)

4 January 31 Chapter 2 Strain analysis

5 February 7 Chapter 2 Review for midterm, Quiz 2 (strain analysis)

February 14
6 Chapter 3 Elasticity
(Midterm week)
Reading week

7 February 28 Chapter 10 Energy methods

8 March 7 Chapter 10 Energy methods

9 March 14 Chapter 10 Energy methods, Quiz 3 (Energy method)

10 March 21 Chapter 5 General bending

11 March 28 Chapter 5 General bending, Quiz 4 (General bending)

12 April 4 Chapter 5 General bending: shear centre

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In the Seminars
Suggested questions to be discussed in a seminar will be posted on eClass before the seminar. In
each seminar the instructor will select some questions from the corresponding set of problems
posted. These questions will then be discussed/solved in class. Questions different from the posted
ones may also be used in the seminars.

Seminar Grade (10% of Final Grade)

There are four in-class eClass-based open-book quizzes, as shown in the schedule of seminars. In
these seminars, in addition to working through some problems selected, the instructor will provide
a problem (not necessarily from the set of problems allocated to that particular seminar) and ask
each student to submit a written solution to that problem. The written solutions should be submitted
to eClass at the end of the seminar and will be marked. Each quiz will carry 2.5% of the total mark
of the course.
The ‘Seminar Grade’ (10%) will be based entirely on these four quizzes.

Note that if you miss one or two quizzes, for valid reasons, the missed weight will be transferred
to other quizzes. Any missed quiz beyond the second missing one will be assigned a mark of zero.