EME3046 MECHANICS OF MATERIALS

2014/2015 Session, Trimester 2

B. Eng. (Hons) Mechanical

General Course Information

EME3046 Mechanics of Materials

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Course Name

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Course Objective To further increase the students' knowledge in mechanics of materials.

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Course
Pre-requisite
Learning
Outcome of
Subject

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EME1066 Strength of Materials

At the completion of the subject, students should be able to:
LO1: Predict the behavior structural integrity of materials under
multiaxial stress states by applying theories of stress and strain, material
constitutive laws and/or failure criteria. (cognitive applying, level 3).
LO3: Calculate the deflection of statistically determinate and statistically
indeterminate structures using energy methods. (cognitive analyzing,
level 4).
LO4: Analyze the stress distribution of a prismatic bar under torsion.
(cognitive analyzing, level 4).
LO5: Determine the critical loading of columns with different end
conditions before buckling takes place. (cognitive - applying, level 3).
PO2 Acquire technical competence in specialized areas of engineering
discipline to solve complex engineering problems.
PO3 Identify and analyze complex engineering problems, and formulate
solutions based on fundamental principles of science and engineering.

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Programme
Outcomes

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Syllabus

http://fet.mmu.edu.my/v4/undergraduate/subject/eme3046.html

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Total Contact
Hours

Lectures = 54 Hours (Lectures, Tutorials and Laboratory Experiment ).

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Grading Policy

Final Examination
Course Work

9.

Laboratory

10. References

Test / Quiz
Tutorial / Assignment
Laboratory

60 %
15 %
15 %
10 %

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2.

Buckling of Struts.
Fatigue Testing.

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F. Beer, "Mechanics of Materials",4th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2005.

R. C. Hibbeler, "Mechanics of Materials", 6th ed., Prentice Hall, 2005.
A. Boresi, R. Schmidt, Advanced Mechanics of Materials, 6th ed.,
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2003. (textbook)
M. Vable, Intermediate Mechanics of Materials, Oxford University
Press, 2008.
A. C. Ugural and S. K. Fenster, Advanced Strength and Applied
Elasticity, Prentice Hall, 2003.

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11. Website links

Lecture Hours = 42 hours

Supervised Tutorial Hours = 6
Laboratory Experiments = 6
Total Contact Hours = 54

Nil

II. List of Lecturers/Tutors and Contact Details:

Name

Position

Room
Number

Email Address

Tel.
No.

Consultation Hours

Mr. Logah
A/L Perumal

Lecturer
(Coordinator)

R2/018

logah.perumal@mmu.
edu.my

3287

Thursday, 9:00 am to
10:00 am.

Dr. Kok Chee Sr. Lecturer

Kuang

R4/004

ckkok@mmu.edu.my

3648

Friday, 10.00am to
01.00pm
Monday, 9:00 am to
10:00 am, 5:00 pm to
6:00 pm.
Tuesday, 9:00 am to
11:00 am.

III. Weekly Lecture Plan and Activities:

Wk

2-4

Date

Lecture/Tutorial

Recommended
readings
(Boresi)

Lecturer

Important Event

Oct 20Oct 26, 2014

Chap 0: Introduction (2 hrs)

Chapter 1

Logah

Holidays
Week 1: Deepavali on
22.10.2014 (Wednesday)
and Replacement leave
for Awal Muharam on
24.10.2014 (Friday)

Oct 27
Nov 16, 2014

Chap 1: Theories of Stress

and Strain (8 hrs)

Chapter 2

Logah

Week 4: Tutorial
1

Ugural

Logah

Week 5: Tutorial
2

Logah

Week 6:
Assignment 1
roll-out

Mechanics of Materials, Methods of

Analysis,
Engineering
Design,
Review of Static Equilibrium,
Internal Force Resultants, Problem
Formulation
and
Solution,
Application to Simple Structures,
Buckling of Columns

Definition and notation of stress at

a point. Stress acting on arbitrary
planes. Normal stress and shear
stress on an oblique plane.
Transformation of stress.
Determination of principal stress
and principal directions using the
concept of stress invariants. Mohrs
circle in three dimensions.
Differential equation of motion of a
deformable body. Strain theory.
Small displacement theory.
Transformation of strain. Principal
strains. Strain Compatibility
relations. Strain Measurement and
strain Rosettes.

Nov 17
Nov 23, 2014

Chap 2: Two Dimensional

Linear Theory of Elasticity
(5hr)
Plane stress and plane strain
problems. Airy stress function.
Applications
to
Problems
in
rectangular and polar coordinates

6-7

Nov 24 Dec
7,
201
4

Chap 3: Three Dimensional

Linear Theory of Elasticity
(5 hr)
Elasticity
and
internal-energy
density.
Elasticity
and
complementary
internal-energy
density. A brief introduction to
anisotropic
elasticity.
Linear
isotropic
elasticity.
Straindisplacement relations for linear
elastic isotropic materials. Strainstress relations for linear elastic
isotropic materials. Hookes law for
linear elastic isotropic materials.

8.1 to 8.7
(Vable)

Chapter 3
Ugural

Week 7:
Tutorial 3

8-9

Dec 8
Dec 21, 2014

Chap 4: Inelastic Material

Behavior (5hrs)

Chapter 4

CK Kok

Nonlinear material response. Yield

criteria: maximum Principal stress
criterion, maximum principal strain
criterion. Yield criteria: strainenergy density criterion, maximum
shear-stress (Tresca) criterion,
distortional energy density (vonMises) criterion. General yielding:
Elastic-plastic bending, fully plastic
moment.

10-11

Dec 22, 2014Jan 11, 2015

Chap 5: Energy Method (7

hrs)

Details will be
announced later.

Week 8: Tutorial
4

Chapter 5

CK Kok

Principle of Stationary Potential

Energy. Castiglianos theorem on
deflections for linear load-deflection
relations. Deflections of statically
determinate structures: dummy
load method and unit dummy load
method. Deflections of statically
indeterminate structures.

12

Dec 29, 2014

Jan
04,
201
5
Jan 12 Jan 18, 2015

Week 9:
Midterm Test 1
(1.5hr)

Holidays
Dec 25, 2014 Christmas

Week 10:
Tutorial 5
Week 11:
Assignment 2
roll-out

MID TRIMESTER BREAK

Chap 6: Torsion of Prismatic

Bars (4 hrs)

Chapter 6
CK Kok

Week 12:
Tutorial 6

CK Kok

Week 13:
Tutorial 7

Saint
Venants
semi-inverse
method.
Prandtls
membrane
analogy.
Torsion
of
narrow
rectangular cross section. Torsion
of sections comprised of thin
rectangles. Torsion of hollow thinwalled sections.

13

Jan 19Jan 25, 2015

Chap 6: Torsion of Prismatic

Bars (1 hrs)

Chapter 6

Torsion of multi-compartment thinwalled sections. Torsion of thinwalled sections with end restraints.
Inelastic torsion.

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Jan 26 Feb 01, 2015

Chapter 12

Chap 7: Buckling of
Columns (5 hrs)

CK Kok

Critical load. Buckling of pin-ended

columns. Columns with other end
conditions.
Classification
of
columns: short, intermediate and
long. Eccentrically loaded columns.
Design formulae.

15-16

Feb 01Feb 15, 2015

EXAM WEEKS

IV. Weekly Timetable: