CIVE 360: MECHANICS OF SOLIDS
Summer 2015
Instructor: Ryan W. Webb
Office: Engineering A205D
Office Hours: MTWR 10:00-11:00 am, 2:30-3:30 pm and by appointment; if the door is open, I’m
available.
Email: [email protected]
Textbook: “MECHANICS OF MATERIALS”, Timothy A. Philpot – 3rd Edition.
Learning objectives/goals:
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Understand stress: Axial, Direct Shear, Bending, Horizontal Shear and Torsional Shear
Transformation of stress on inclined planes
Understand strain: Axial, Bending, Shear and Thermal
Gain the ability to solve indeterminate axial load problems
Understand constitutive laws to relate stress to strain and vice versa
Be able to calculate cross-sectional properties and be able to use them to relate forces
to stress
Be able to calculate strains based on section dimensions and given
displacements/deflections
Improve your ability to create shear and moment diagrams from beam load diagrams
Gain the ability to calculate beam deflections using both 4th and 2nd order differential
equations
Understand buckling capacity of long columns
Gain the ability to analyze thin walled pressure vessels
Understand how to combine stresses and determine principal axial stresses and shear
stresses
Gain the ability to use Mohr’s circle to combine shear and normal stresses
Assignments:
There will be two to four homework problems assigned every class that have to do with the topics of
that lecture. FOLLOW THE PROPER FORMAT. Homework assignments will be collected on Wednesdays
and Fridays. The problems assigned during the Monday and Tuesday lectures will be due that Friday and
the problems assigned Wednesday, Thursday, Friday will be due the following Wednesday. Homework
solutions will be posted after the class that the assignment is due. Please ask general homework
questions at the beginning of the class so that everyone can have the same answer. Your lowest two
homework grades will be dropped. Late homework assignments will not be accepted due to the
accelerated pace of the summer term.
Students are permitted to consult with each other regarding approaches to solving problems in these
assignments. However, everything that is written down and turned in must be authored by the student
getting credit for the assignment, and any sources that were consulted while completing the assignment
must be referenced (table look up values, etc.).
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Summer 2015
You are also expected to go online to view the MecMovies associated with the textbook; these are well
done and can be quite helpful in you learning the material:
Web.mst.edu/~mecmovie/
Laptops and Tablets:
You do not need a laptop or tablet in this course. Please do not bring them to class.
Calculators for Exams:
Only FE permitted calculators listed below will be allowed for use on Exams. No cell phones, laptops, or
any other electronic devise may be used.
Casio: All fx-115 models. Any Casio calculator must contain fx-115 in its model name
Hewlett Packard: The HP 33s and HP 35s models, but no others
Texas Instruments: All TI-30X and TI-36X models. Any Texas Instruments calculator must contain either
TI-30X or TI-36X in its model name
Final Exam:
The final exam will consist of two parts: new material and cumulative material. For this reason it will
take place over two days.
Makeup exam policy:
For students who cannot attend regular exams due to university business duty, serious illness, or family
emergency (all with written proof), a makeup exam may be arranged. The instructor must be notified
prior to the day of the exam, and no exceptions will be made without a legitimate reason and a timely
arrangement.
Grading will be as follows:
Homework:
20%
Midterms (3): 18.3% each
Final:
25%
Letter grading:
Letter grades will use a +/- system as described in the CSU catalog, with the following ranges:
Final Score (%)
90 – 100
80 – 89.9
70 – 79.9
60 – 69.9
<60
Letter Grade
A
B
C
D
F
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Summer 2015
Academic Integrity:
Academic dishonesty is a serious matter. University rules, including academic penalty and further
investigation by the university authorities, will be strictly enforced in this course. Please review the CSU
Student Code for details regarding these rules. Solution manuals may be available for the textbook on
the internet. However, copying from it will not only prevent you from learning, and thereby result in
lower exam scores, but could also lead to dismissal from the course.
CIVE 360: MECHANICS OF SOLIDS
Summer 2015
Tentative Schedule
Lecture(s)
1-3
4-5
6-10
11,12,15
13-14
16-17
18-20
21-22
23-24
25-27
28-29
30-31
32, 35
33-34
36-39
Topic
Stress & Strain
Mechanical Properties/Constitutive Laws
Axial Deformation
Torsion
Review & Midterm 1 (July 2)
Shear Forces & Moments
Stresses in Beams
Deflections of Beams
Review & Midterm 2 (July 17)
Stress & Strain Transformations
Thin-Walled Pressure Vessels
Combined Loads
Columns
Review & Midterm 3 (July 31)
Review & Final Exam (August 6 & 7)
Book Chapter(s)
1&2
3
5
6
1-5
7
8&9
10
6-9
12
14
15
16
10-14
ALL
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Summer 2015