Lecture: MWF 11:30– 12:20 pm
Course outline and grading policy
Course: ME2570 Mechanics of Materials Semester: Fall 2016
Office Hours: MW12:30–14:00, F 12:30–13:30
Room D0208, Parkview Campus.
Instructor: Javier M. Montefort Website:
Office: G228, Parkview Campus. http://homepages.wmich.edu/~s9montef/
Email: s9montef@wmich.edu
Textbook: Mechanics of Materials, R. C. Hibbeler, 9 th
edition, Prentice Hall. ISBN 9780133409321. Make sure that included in the textbook you obtain an access code to Mastering Engineering.
TEST AND GRADING POLICIES
Grading Scale
A: above 90%
BA: 85% - 89%
B: 80% - 84%
CB: 75% - 79%
C: 70% - 74%
DC: 65% - 69%
D: 50% - 64%
E: below 50%
List of Topics
I. Stress
Test, Homework & Attendance
1
2
3 st nd
midterm test: 18%
midterm test: 18% rd
midterm test: 18%
4 th
midterm: 18%
Final Exam: 18%
Homework: 10%
Tentative Test Dates
Test I: 9–30
Test II: 10–19
Test III: 11–18
Test IV: 12–5
Test I: Ch. I, II, III
Test II: Ch. IV, V
Test III: Ch. VI, VII
Test IV: Ch. VIII, IX, XI
Final Exam: 12–12 @ 10:15 am
Chapters I through XII
II. Strain
III. Mechanical Properties of Materials
IV. Axial Load
V. Torsion
VI. Bending
VII. Transverse Shear
VIII. Combined Loadings
IX. Stress Transformation
XI. Design of Beams and Shafts
XII. Deflection of Beams and Shafts
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
Upon satisfactory completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Identify the causes that produce normal and shear stresses on a mechanical element and determine average normal and shear stresses when appropriate.
2. Understand the concept of strain and the relation between stress and strain.
3.
Determine stresses and strains in axially-loaded members, members subjected to torsion, and members subject to flexural loadings.
4. Solve statically indeterminate problems.
5. Determine the principal stresses and then use them to properly design a mechanical element.
6. Determine the deflection of a shaft/beam subjected to a system of loads.
GENERAL CLASS POLICY
1. Make-up tests will not be provided, and the missed test will be graded as “ZERO”. If a student misses a midterm test for a medical reason, the student must provide a doctor’s statement. In that case the missed test will be transferred and credited toward the Final Examination: (For example, if you missed the second test for a medical reason, the final examination will be counted as 18% + 18% = 36% of the total grade). Every student must take the final examination and no make–up exam will be offered.
2. Homework will be assigned to be solved using MasteringEngineering (on-line software). You will need to register using the code contained in the textbook you purchased.
Access to MasteringEngineering can also be obtained at www.masteringengineering.com
. In this case you will need to decide if you want to obtain electronic access to both the textbook and the online homework, or only access to the online homework.
Answers to all homework assignments must be entered using Mastering Engineering ( www.masteringengineering.com
).
Mastering Engineering will allow you up to 6 attempts to enter the correct answer before grading as incorrect the problem you are working on. Once you have entered the correct answer the software will notify you immediately. Use 3 significant digits after the decimal point throughout your calculations. There will not be partial credit for erroneous answers.
3. There will be NO curving of the grades.
4. You are responsible for making yourself aware of and understanding the policies and procedures in the Undergraduate and
Graduate Catalogs that pertain to Academic Honesty. These policies include cheating, fabrication, falsification and forgery, multiple submission, plagiarism, complicity and computer misuse. [The policies can be found at www.www.wmich.edu/catalog under Academic Policies, Student Rights and Responsibilities.] If there is reason to believe you have been involved in academic dishonesty, you will be referred to the Office of Student Conduct. You will be given the opportunity to review the charge(s). If you believe you are not responsible, you will have the opportunity for a hearing. You should consult with me if you are uncertain about an issue of academic honesty prior to the submission of an assignment or test.

5. The use of laptops and cellphone during lecture is forbidden unless the instructor explicitly allows it.
6. The use of the solutions manual for solving homework is forbidden.
7. The use of devices capable of storing electronic files or accessing the internet during tests and lecture is forbidden. Using any electronic device different to a calculator during a test will result in a score of zero in that test/exam. The use of mobile telephones during tests and lecture is forbidden.
8. Once a homework has been assigned, its due date will not be extended under any circumstances.
9. Final grades are made available to the student through http://gowmu.wmich.edu
according to the calendar established by
Western Michigan University.
10. Succeeding in this course requires a minimum of at least 6 hrs. of effective study per week in addition to lecture time.
11. In case you consider the grading of a test was unfair or incorrect, you have a maximum of 144 hrs (6 days) after the graded paper was returned to you by the instructor to ask for a revision of the assignment, after this period there will be no review of the grading under any circumstance.