EGR 264/265 Strength of Materials

Spring

Students in Strength of Materials learn to calculate the stresses and deformations in beams, shafts, and other mechanical and structural components. Students apply this knowledge to design of members subject to combined loading from axial, torsional, and bending. Stress transformation, principal stresses, Mohr’s circle and strain transformation are covered. Indeterminate analysis for axial, bending, and torsion are introduced as well as inelastic behavior. Students conduct experiments demonstrating the mechanical behavior of engineering materials. Experiments may emphasize statistical experiment design, fundamental concepts in strength of materials, the use of instrumentation such as strain gauges, or other topics. Communication skills including laboratory report writing is emphasized. Taken with 1 three-hour lab period (EGR 265). Prerequisite: 2.0 or higher in EGR 250. Corequisite: EGR 265

4 credit hours