DE6308                             STRENGTH OF MATERIALS 2

Level 6                                             Credits 15                                            Version July 2010

LEARNING TIME

RECOMMENDED PRE-REQUISITE

DE5302 Strength of Materials 1

RECOMMENDED CO-REQUISITE

Nil

AIM/PURPOSE

To develop an understanding and advanced knowledge of strengths of materials and the detailed design of mechanical engineering components.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

On successful completion of this course, the student should be able to:

1.            Apply strengths of materials theory to complicated engineering applications.

2.            Design beams in steel, timber and concrete and determine deflections for complex loading situations.

3.            Design pressure cylinder application.

4.            Calculate the failure load for eccentrically loaded columns.

5.            Design plate application.

6.            Design springs and determine operations stresses and deflections.

7.            Demonstrate an understanding of relevant design codes.

INDICATIVE CONTENT

• Elastic constants
• Effects of three-dimensional stress elements
• Shaft design, determination of maximum stresses due to combined loadings, keyways, collars, shape variations.
• Beam design, steel, timber, concrete,
• Beam deflection by integration.
• Cylinders thick and thin, Lame’s equations, design of cylinders.
• Column design, short, intermediate and long columns, crinkling instability, eccentrically loaded, secant or Rankine-Gordon formula.
• Plates, Loading, bending and deflection in thin plates.
• Springs, Spring types and construction, stress and deflection calculations design of helical and leaf types, Wahl’s factor, spring stiffness, end conditions, uses of springs, spring materials.
• Design codes as applied to; beams, pressure vessels, shafts and columns.