MECH434 ADVANCED STRENGTH OF MATERIALS
| Course Code: | 3650434 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 5.0 |
| Department: | Mechanical Engineering |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Assoc.Prof.Dr. VOLKAN ESAT |
| Offered Semester: | Fall or Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
At the end of this course, the student will:
- Have an understanding of the fundamental concepts and elementary elasticity
- Establish failure theories
- Interpret nonsymmetrical bending of beams, and torsion of noncircular long prisms
- Elaborate on elasticity stability and buckling of columns
- Identify energy methods, limit analysis, beam-columns, thermal and residual stresses.
Course Content
For course details, see https://catalog2.metu.edu.tr.Course Learning Outcomes
Having successfully completed this course, the student will be able to:
- Understand the stress and strain concept.
- Understand the stress-strain relations.
- Associate basic concepts and relations in elasticity.
- Simplify 3D elastic relations for special cases.
- Understand nonlinear behaviour.
- Solve differential equations for different boundary and loading conditions.
- Understand beam behaviour under general loading.
- Understand torsion of noncircular sections.
- Implement energy methods.
- Understand elastic stability of columns.
- Analyse plastic behaviour of materials.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | Ability to establish the relationship between mathematics, basic sciences and engineering sciences with engineering applications | ✔ | |||
| 2 | Ability to find and interpret information | ✔ | |||
| 3 | Ability to follow the literature and technology related to his/her topic of interest | ✔ | |||
| 4 | Recognition of the need to keep oneself up to date in his/her profession | ✔ | |||
| 5 | Possession of written and oral communication skills | ✔ | |||
| 6 | Ability to conduct team work (within the discipline, inter-disciplinary, multi-disciplinary) | ✔ | |||
| 7 | Ability to produce original solutions | ✔ | |||
| 8 | Use of scientific methodology in approaching and producing solutions to engineering problems and needs | ✔ | |||
| 9 | Openness to all that is new | ✔ | |||
| 10 | Ability to conduct experiments | ✔ | |||
| 11 | Ability to do engineering design | ✔ | |||
| 12 | Awareness of engineering ethics, knowledge and adoption of its fundamental elements | ✔ | |||
| 13 | Ability to take societal, environmental and economic considerations into account in professional activities | ✔ | |||
| 14 | Possession of pioneering and leadership characteristics in areas related to the profession | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution