Coursecode: wb1110
Coursename: Statics and Strength of materials

DUT creditpoints: 6
ECTS creditpoints: 9

Subfaculty of Mechanical Engineering and Marine Technology

Lecturer(s): Wisse, ir. G., Hommel, ir. G.

Tel.: 015-278 2704   278 6507

Catalog data:
Statics, strain, stress, kinematics

Courseyear: 1
Semester: 0/6/6/0
Hours p/w: 6
Other hours: -
Assessment: Written
Assessm.period(s): 2, 3, 4
(see academic calendar)

Prerequisites: VWO

Follow up: mt828, mt511d3

Detailed description of topics:

  • wb1110 d1 - Statics
    Components and resultants of forces in R2 and R3. Equilibrium in R2 and R3. Statically determinate vs statically indeterminate structures. Plane trusses and frames. Centroids and moments of inertia of plane areas. Normal force, shear force and bending moments in beams.

  • wb1110 d2 - Strength of materials
    Statically determinate or indeterminate structures under external loads, temperature changes and pre-stress; strain energy. Torsion of statically determinate structures; transmission of power by shafts; strain energy. Bending, shearing and normal stresses in beams; composite structures. Deflections of statically determinate or indeterminate structures. The elastica or deflection curve; superposition using tables of beam deflections ("vergeet-mij-nietjes").

Course material:

  • Statics, Volume 1, fourth edition, SI version. J.L. Meriam and L.G. Kraige. ISBN 0-471-24164-4

  • Dynamics, Volume 2, fourth edition, SI version. J.L. Meriam and L.G. Kraige. ISBN 0-471-24167-9

  • Mechanics of Materials, third SI Edition. J.M. Gere and S.P. Timoshenko.

References from literature:

Remarks (specific information about assesment, entry requirements, etc.):
Examination by computer. For details: see "de studiewijzer"

Goals:

Statica
  • Understand the basic concepts of force, moment, action is reaction, Newton’s laws in the absence of accelerations (statics) and law of gravitation 
  • Apply the basic concepts, analyse and calculate simple 2 and 3D problems concerning following subjects: force systems, moments, couples
  • Formulate and solve equilibrium equations for 2 and 3D cases
  • Calculate equilibrium, internal forces and reaction forces for statically determinate structures
  • Understand and apply distributed forces for equilibrium problems
  • Calculate shear force and bending moment-diagrams
  • Calculate center of mass
  • Analyse flexible cables as a type of structural member (parabolic and catenary cable)
  • Understand and apply fluid statics (law of Archimedes, pressure load on cylinders)
  • Understand the concept of Coulomb friction (static as well as kinetic friction)
  • Understand the concept of virtual work and apply it to simple equilibrium problems

Sterkteleer

  • Understand tension, compression and shear, linear elasticity, Hooke's law and Poisson's ratio
  • Analyse axially loaded members, resulting in the calculation of  displacements and internal forces of statically indeterminate structures.
  • Calculate stresses on inclined sections,
  • Incorporate effects of temperature and pre-strain on structures with axially loaded members
  • Calculate the strain energy for axially loaded members
  • Understand pure shear and apply it to torsion of circular sections
  • Understand the relationship between E and G
  • Calculate shear stresses and rotations due to torsion of thin walled closed sections of arbitrary shape (Bredt's theory)
  • Calculate normal and shear stresses in laterally loaded beams
  • Calculate reaction forces and deflections of statically determinate and statically indeterminate beams

Computer use:
One weekly computertest of one hour

Laboratory project(s):

Design content:

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