ME434 ADVANCED STRENGTH OF MATERIALS
| Course Code: | 5690434 |
| 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: | Prof.Dr. HALUK DARENDELİLER |
| Offered Semester: | Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
At the end of this course, the student will
1. make a review of basic relations in elasticity,
2. learn the stress tensor,
3. learn the strain tensor,
4. learn the stress-strain relations,
5. learn plane stress and plane strain,
6. learn the nonlinear behavior,
7. coupled stretching and bending of straight nonuniform beams of arbitrary sections and loads,
8. learn the behavior of noncircular section bars under torsion,
9. learn to analyze planar curved beams,
10. learn to analyze torsion of prismatic bars.
Course Content
Fundamental concepts and elementary elasticity. Review of failure theories. Nonsymmetrical bending of beams. Torsion of noncircular long prisms. Elasticity stability and buckling of columns. Selected topics among energy methods, limit analysis, beam-columns, thermal and residual stresses.
Course Learning Outcomes
1. Understood the stress and strain concept.
2. Understood the stress-strain relations.
3. Understood basic concepts and relations in elasticity.
4. Ability to simplify 3D elastic relations for special cases.
5. Ability to understand nonlinear behavior.
6. Ability to solve differential equations for different boundary and loading conditions.
7. Ability to understand beam behavior under general loading.
8. Ability to understand torsion of noncircular sections.
9. Ability to determine stresses in a curved beam.
10. Ability to analyze thick walled cylinders.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | No | Yes | ||
| 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 economical considerations into account in professional activities | ✔ | |||
| 14 | Possession of pioneering and leadership characteristics in areas related to the profession | ✔ | |||