Syllabus Strength of Materials - (CE3491) UNIT I STRESS, STRAIN AND DEFORMATION OF SOLIDS Rigid bodies and deformable solids - Tension, Compression and Shear Stresses - Deformation of simple and compound bars - Thermal stresses - Elastic constants - Volumertric strains - Stresses on inclined planes - Principal stresses and principal planes - Mohr’s circle of stress. (Chapters - 1, 2) UNIT II TRANSVERSE LOADING ON BEAMS AND STRESSES IN BEAM Beams - Types - Transverse loading on beams - Shear force and Bending moment in beams - Cantilever, Simply supported and over hanging beams. Theory of simple bending - Bending stress distribution - Load carrying capacity - Proportioning of sections - Flitched beams - Shear stress distribution. (Chapters - 3, 4, 5) UNIT III TORSION Theory of Torsion - Stresses and Deformations in Solid and Hollow Circular Shafts - Combined bending moment and torsion of shafts - Power transmitted to shaft - Shaft in series and parallel - Closed and Open Coiled helical springs - springs in series and parallel. (Chapter - 6, 7) UNIT IV DEFLECTION OF BEAMS Elastic curve - Governing differential equation - Double integration method - Macaulay's method - Area moment method - Conjugate beam method for computation of slope and deflection of determinant beams. (Chapter - 8) UNIT V THIN CYLINDERS, SPHERES AND THICK CYLINDERS Stresses in thin cylindrical shell due to internal pressure - circumferential and longitudinal stresses - Deformation in thin cylinders - Spherical shells subjected to internal pressure - Deformation in spherical shells - Thick cylinders - Lame’s theory. (Chapter - 9)
