Are you a student seeking transfer credit? Please note that this course goes by many different names, including Mechanics of Materials, Solid Mechanics, Mechanics of Solids, Mechanics of Deformable Bodies, Strengths of Materials, etc.

Topics: (1) Stress, strain, and deformation. (2) Engineering materials, stress-strain plots, modulus of elasticity, ultimate stress, yield stress, Hooke's Law (2D and 3D formulations), and Poisson's Ratio. (3) Axial stress, strain, and deformation of determinate and indeterminate members. Includes thermal effects. (4) Beams, shear/moment diagrams, centroid, moment of inertia, flexural stress, transverse shear stress. Beam deflections. Determinate and one degree indeterminate beams. (5) Torsion in solid and hollow cylindrical shafts. Torsional stresses, strains, angle of twist. (6) Euler buckling, columns, critical buckling load, critical buckling stress, radius of gyration. (7) Combined stresses (axial, flexural, torsional, and transverse shear). (8) Stress transformation, stress on an inclined plane, Mohr's Circle, principal stresses. I am willing to teach additional topics to students that require them for transfer credit purposes. Please contact me as soon as possible to arrange this. I can easily add in pressure vessel stresses and/ failure theories as needed.

The instructor is the author of Mechanics of Materials: An Online Learning Platform, a free and open multi-media learning platform at SeeingStructures.org.

1. Effectively communicate numeric solutions through use of engineering notation, proper sign conventions and units, and three to four significant figures.

2. Create and distinguish between loading diagrams and free-body diagrams.

3. Interpret stress-strain diagrams for a given material and describe its behavior using proper terminology (yield stress, fracture stress, Young’s modulus, elasticity, ductility, etc.)

4. Compute the stress, strain, and deformation of determinate and indeterminate members subjected to various combinations of loads (axial, flexural, torsional, and thermal).

5. Understand the limit state of Euler buckling in slender columns.

6. Illustrate stress at a point and stress distributions at a plane in 2D and 3D.

7. Employ Mohr’s Circle to transform stress from one coordinate system to another; determine principal stresses, maximum in-plane shear stress, and absolute maximum shear stress.

8. Design simple engineering connections and members using the Allowable Stress Design philosophy, including consideration for stress concentrations.

Routine attendance is important and expected. It’s part of the “time-on-task” you need to master the course material. If you miss class, I will assume that it is for a good reason. Therefore all absences are considered excused. In order to incentivize attendance while also not penalizing students that need to miss class for a good reason (e.g. illness), the calculation of the final course grade will follow the table below. It’s based on the number of classes that you attend (4 days per week times 5 weeks equals 20 classes):

Per JCU policy, you may not make-up a major exam (midterm, final, etc.) without the permission of the Dean’s Office. The Dean’s Office will grant such permission only when the absence was caused a religious holiday (provided the student notifies the insturctor by the end of Week 1) or a serious impediment (e.g. a documented illness, travel for hospitalization or death in the immediate family, and other situations of similar gravity). Permission to make-up a major exam will not be given due to job interviews, family celebrations, travel difficulties, student misunderstandings or personal convenience. Students who will be absent from a major exam must notify the Dean’s Office prior to that exam. The final exam is scheduled for Friday of Week 5.