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Mechanics & Materials I

Subjects: Engineering · Mechanical Engineering · Science

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Instructors: Prof. Carol Livermore, Prof. Henrik Schmidt, Prof. James H. Williams, Prof. Simona Socrate
Term: Fall 2006
Level: Undergraduate
What's inside: 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 36 other files · 2 web pages
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Mechanics & Materials I

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Lecture 1: Course Outline, Review of Forces and Moments, Introduction to Equilibrium ( PDF )

Lecture 2: Forces, Moments, Equilibrium ( PDF )

Lecture 3: Applying the Equations of Equilibrium, Planar Trusses ( PDF )

Lecture 4: Friction ( PDF )

Lecture 5: Shear Force and Bending Moment Diagrams ( PDF )

Lecture 6: Shear Force and Bending Moment Diagrams (cont.) ( PDF )

Lecture 7: Force-deformation Relationships and Static Indeterminacy ( PDF )

Lecture 8: Finishing up Static Indeterminacy; Uniaxial Loading and Material Properties ( PDF )

Lecture 9: Trusses and Their Deformations ( PDF )

Lecture 10: Statically Determinate and Indeterminate Trusses ( PDF )

Lecture 11: Quiz 1

Lecture 12: Multiaxial Stress ( PDF )

Lecture 13: Multiaxial Stress and Strain ( PDF )

Lecture 14: Multiaxial Strain and Multiaxial Stress-strain Relationships ( PDF )

Lecture 15: Stress-strain-temperature Relationships and Thin-walled Pressure Vessels ( PDF )

Lecture 16: Stress Transformations and Principal Stress ( PDF )

Lecture 17: Stress and Strain Transformations ( PDF )

Lecture 18: Failure of Materials and Examples ( PDF )

Lecture 19: Quiz 2

Lecture 20: Pure Bending ( PDF )

Lecture 21: Moment-curvature Relationship ( PDF )

Lecture 22: Beam Deflection ( PDF )

Lecture 23: Symmetry, Superposition, and Statically Indeterminate Beams ( PDF )

Lecture 24: Torsion and Twisting ( PDF )

Lecture 25: Torsion Examples ( PDF )

Lecture 26: Energy Methods ( PDF )

Lecture 27: Examples ( PDF )