ET 2220 - Strength of Materials

• Students will be able to analyze stresses in beams using beam bending and shear stress theories.
• Students will be able to deal with combined loading situations.
• Students will be able to determine deformations experienced by a uniaxially loaded body.
• Students will be able to draw shear-moment diagrams for beam problems.
• Students will be able to solve problems related to torsion.
• Students will have a basic understanding of energy method and apply it to solve some mechanics problems.
• Students will learn how engineering materials behave when loaded uniaxially.
• Students will understand Euler’s critical load theory and apply it to solve column buckling problems.
• Students will understand Hooke’s law.
• Students will understand beam deflection theory and apply it to determine vertical deflection experienced by a beam.
• Students will understand stress transformation theory and draw a Mohr’s circle to determine principal stresses.
• Students will understand the concepts of stress and strain.
• Students will understand thin-wall pressure vessel theory and apply it to solve pressure vessel problems.