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Course Description.
Syllabus
Textbook and Assessment
Laboratory
Contact Information
1. Introduction
Course Description
UNIT NAME:
ENT 251 Solid Mechanics
LECTURER:
Muhamad Saifuldin Bin Abdul Manan
CONTACT HOURS:
5 hours per week
& LEARNING APPROACH: 3 hours lecture, 2 hours tutorial/laboratory
CREDITS:
4 credits
PRE-REQUISITES: None
OBJECTIVE:
To provide student with theory and application of the
fundamental principles of Solid Mechanics.
To understand the physical behaviour of materials under
loading.
To introduce the concept of stress, strain, axial load,
torsional loading, bending and buckling.
1. Introduction
Syllabus
CHAPTER 1. STRESS
• Equilibrium of a deformable body
• Stress
• Average normal stress in an axially loaded bar
• Average shear stress
• Allowable stress
• Design of Simple connections
CHAPTER 2. STRAIN
• Deformation
• Strain
CHAPTER 3. MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS
• Tension and Compression Test
• Stress-Strain Diagram
• Hooke’s Law
• Strain Energy
• Poisson's Ratio
• Shear Stress-Strain Diagram
• Failure of Materials Due to Creep and Fatigue
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CHAPTER 4. AXIAL LOAD
• Saint- Venant’s Principle
• Principle of Superposition
• Elastic Deformation of an Axially Loaded Member
• Statically Indeterminate Axially Loaded Member
• Force Method of Analysis for Axially Loaded Member
• Thermal Stress
• Stress Concentrations
CHAPTER 5. TORSION
• Torsional Deformation of a Circular Shaft
• The Torsion Formula
• Power Transmission
• Angle of Twist
• Statically Indeterminate Torque-Loaded Members
• Stress Concentration
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CHAPTER 6. BENDING
• Shear and Moment Diagrams
• Graphical Method for Constructing Shear and Moment Diagrams
• Bending Deformation of a Straight Member
• The Flexure Formula
• Unsymmetrical Bending
• Stress Concentrations
CHAPTER 7. STRESS AND STRAIN TRANSFORMATION
• Plane-Stress Transformation
• General Equations of Plane Stress Transformation
• Principal Stresses and Maximum In-Plane Shear Stress
• Mohr’s Circle – Plane Stress
• Stress in Shafts Due to Axial Load and Torsion
• Stress Variations Throughout a Prismatic Beam
• Absolute Maximum Shear Stress
• Plane Strain
• General Equations of Plane-Strain Transformation
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Syllabus
CHAPTER 8. BUCKLING
• Critical Load
• Ideal Column with Pin Supports
• Columns Having Various Types of Supports
1. Introduction
Textbook and Assessment
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REQUIRED TEXT:
Hibbeler, R.C. ‘Mechanics
of Materials’
SI 7th Edition, Prentice
Hall, 2008.
1. Introduction
Textbook and Assessment
• RECOMMENDED TEXTS:
Beer and Johnson Jr. ‘ Mechanics of Materials’, 4th
ed. in SI units. McGraw-Hill, 2006.
Raymond Parnes., ‘Solid Mechanics in Engineering’
John Willey and Sons, 2001.
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Textbook and Assessment
ASSESSMENT
Laboratory Works and Tests
25%
Tutorial, Assignments & Quizzes
10%
Mid-semester test. (Date to be announced in lecture) 15%
Final examination.
50%
The University’s policy on Plagiarism applies to all
assessable components of this unit.
1. Introduction
Laboratory
5 Lab Session will be conducted throughout semester;
5 Experiments in MNM 9 (Makmal Mekanik Pepejal, Taman
Muhibah)
• Tensile test
• Compression test
• Torsion test
• Bending Test
• (Buckling Test)
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Laboratory
Exp 1: Tensile Test
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Laboratory
Use actual cross-section area
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Laboratory
Exp 2: Compression Test
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Laboratory
Exp 4: Torsion Test
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Laboratory
Exp 3: Bending Test
Exp 5: Buckling Test
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Muhamad Saifuldin Bin Abdul Manan
Email: m.saifuldin@unimap.edu.my
h/p: 013-9290079
Room: KKF33