Coursecode: mt828
Coursename: Mechanics of materials 2

DUT creditpoints: 4
ECTS creditpoints: 6

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Marine Technology

Lecturer(s): Hommel, ir. G.

Tel.: 015-278 6507

Catalog data:
3d trusses, analysis of stress and strain, yield criteria, plastic limit analysis, bending of plates, buckling, shear center, torsion

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

Prerequisites: wb1110

Follow up: mt826, mt827, mt829

• 3d trusses, calculation of displacements, internal forces and reactive forces, analysis of stress and strain, yield criteria (Von Mises, Tresca).

• plastic limit analysis, plastic hinges, collapse mechanisms, displacements and stresses due to plate bending.

• buckling of columns, shear center, general theory of torsion applied to open and closed beam sections with and without warping prevention.

• introduction to the finite element method (displacement method), 2D an 3D trusses and beam structures, stiffness matrices, coordinate transformations, characteristics of global stiffness matrix, prescribed displacements, assembly and solution of the finite element equations

Course material:
Mechanics of Materials, Gere and Timoshenko, 3rd edition, ISBN 0-412-36880-3
Course notes, Hommel,G. and Vink, J.H.

References from literature:
refences available in course material

Remarks (specific information about assesment, entry requirements, etc.):
compulsory exercises

Goals:
working knowledge of applied mechanics

Computer use:
computer demonstrations and exercises

Laboratory project(s):

Design content:
applied mechanics

Percentage of design: 50%