SCIENZA DELLE COSTRUZIONI
Academic Year 2024/2025 - 3° YearCredit Value: 10
Scientific field: ICAR/08 - Structural mechanics
Taught classes: 56 hours
Exercise: 24 hours
Term / Semester: 1°
Detailed Course Content
Introduction-Concept of Stress: Equilibrium of deformable body, average normal and shear stress, bearing stress, allowable stress, factor of safety, deformation-
Stress and Strain - Axial Loading: Normal and shear strain, the tension test, Hooke's law, Poisson's ratio, elastic deformation of axially loaded members, principle of superposition, statically indeterminate axially loaded member,thermal stress.
Pure Bending: Shear and moment diagrams, the flexure formula, eccentric axial loading, un-symmetric bending.
Shearing Stress in Beams and Thin-Walled Members: The shear formula, shear stresses in beams, shear flow in built-up members.
Torsion​: The torsion formulas.
Transformation of Stress and Strain: Mohr's circle, failure criteria, state of stress caused by combined loading
Deflection of Beams:The elastic curve, slope and displacement by integration method, Mohr analogy.
Textbook Information
F. Beer, E. Russell Johnston Jr., J. T. DeWolf, D.F. Mazurek: “Mechanics of Materials" , McGraw Hill Education
R.C. Hibbeler: “Mechanics of Materials", Pearson.