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DDS 201 - Strength of Materials

Course Description

Provides a non-calculus based overview of the behavior of materials when subjected to different loadings and restraints and the prediction of materials behavior in different situations. Topics include: concepts of stress, concepts of strain, tension, moments of inertia, and beam bending.

 

Competency Areas

Hours

 

Concepts of Stress

Class

5

Concepts of Strain

D. Lab

0

Tension

P. Lab/O.B.I.

0

Moments of Inertia

Credit

5

Beam Bending

 

 

 

 

 

Prerequisite:

ENG 101, MAT 104

Corequisite:

 

 

Course Guide

 

Competency

After completing this section, the student will:

Hours

Class

D.Lab

P.Lab/

O.B.I.

CONCEPTS OF STRESS

10

0

0

Simple stress

Determine simple stress.

 

 

 

Yield strength

Determine yield strength by using handbook of material properties.

 

 

 

Safe loads

Determine safe loads

 

 

 

Allowable stress

Determine allowable stress.

 

 

 

Shear stress

Determine shearing stress.

 

 

 

CONCEPTS OF STRAIN

5

0

0

Simple strain

Determine simple strain.

 

 

 

Hooke’s law

Apply Hooke's law.

 

 

 

Poisson's ratio

Determine Poisson’s ratio.

 

 

 

Dimension changes

Determine change in dimension.

 

 

 

Shear modules

Determine shear modules.

 

 

 

TENSION

5

0

0

Tension

Determine the shearing stress resulting from tension.

 

 

 

MOMENTS OF INERTIA

5

0

0

Moments

Determine the amount of inertia of areas.

 

 

 

BEAM BENDING

25

0

0

Diagrams

Develop shear and moment diagrams.

 

 

 

Bending stresses

Determine bending stresses in beams.

 

 

 

Horizontal shear

Determine horizontal shearing stresses in beams.

 

 

 

Deflection

Determine deflection of beams.

 

 

 

 

Suggested Resources

 

Suggested Resources include textbooks shown below or most current edition.

 

Books

 

Bauld, N. (1986). Mechanics of materials. Boston: PWS Kent.

Morrow, H. W. (1981). Statics and strength of materials. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Muvdi, B. D., & McNabb, J. W. (1984). Engineering mechanics of materials. New York: Macmillan.

Thrower, J. R. (1986). Technical statics and strength of materials (2nd ed.). Boston: Prindle, Weber & Schmidt.

Wolf, L. J. (1988). Statics and strength of materials. Columbus, OH: Macmillan.