Courses Detail Information
VM311 – Strength of Materials
Instructor: Roberto Dugnani
Instructors (Faculty):
Credits: 3 credits
Pre-requisites: Vm211 Introduction to Solid Mechanics and Vv 256 Applied Calculus IV or Vv 286 Honors Mathematics IV
Description:
Energy methods; buckling of columns, including approximate methods; bending of beams of asymmetrical cross-section; shear center and torsion of thin-walled sections; membrane stresses in axisymmetric shells; elastic-plastic bending and torsion; axisymmetric bending of circular plates.
Course Topics:
- Castigliano’s theorems
- Rayleigh-Ritz methods
- Beams with unsymmetric cross-sections
- Introduction to finite element analysis
- Buckling of columns
- Elastic-plastic bending