ME 354 - Mechanics of Materials Lab
Instructor: Nathan J. Sniadecki, Ph.D.
TAs: Daniel Flores, Onur Namli
Lecture
Location: MEB 248
Time: 9:30-10:20am MTWF
Lab
Location: MEB 127
Time: 2:30-5:20pm TWThF
Syllabus
Lecture Material
- Lecture 3: Excel Spreadsheet
- Lecture 6: Strain Gages PDF, Memo Report Style Guide PDF
- Lecture 10: von Mises/Octahedral Stress PDF
- Lecture 12: True Stress/Strain, Chapter 4 Example Problems in Excel Spreadsheet
- Lecture 13: Instron & Universal Testing Systems PPT Formal Report Style Guide PDF
- Lecture 15: Suggested Study Problems for Midterm Exam PDF
- Lecture 18: Plotting X- and Y-Error bars in Excel PDF
- Lecture 21: Midterm Exam Results PDF
- Lecture 27: Structural Analysis and Unit Force Method PDF
- Lecture 33: Eccentric Loading PDF
- Lecture 34: "Building the Boeing 787 Dreamliner" Podcast
Classroom: Johnson 022, 3/10, 9:30-10:20a
Homework
- Homework Format Requirements PDF
- Hwk 1, Due 01/18/08 PDF, Solutions: PDF
- Hwk 2, Due 01/25/08 PDF, Solutions: PDF
- Hwk 3, Due 02/01/08 PDF, Solutions: PDF
- Hwk 4, Due 02/08/08 PDF, Solutions: PDF
- Hwk 5, Due 02/15/08 PDF, Solutions: PDF
- Hwk 6, Due 02/22/08 PDF, Solutions: PDF
- Hwk 7, Due 02/29/08 PDF, Solutions: PDF
- Hwk 8, Due 03/07/08 PDF, Solutions: PDF
- Hwk 9, Due 03/14/08 PDF, Solutions: PDF
Lab Material
- Lab 1 - Beams & Strain gages PDF
- Lab 2 - Photoelasticity PDF
- Lab 3 - Tensile Test PDF
- Lab 3 Data - Excel Spreadsheet (size: 5 MB)
- Lab 4 - Charpy Test PDF, Impact energy data PDF
- Lab 5 - Torsion Test PDF
- Lab 6 - Fracture Toughness PDF
- Lab 7 - Structural Analysis DOC
- Lab 8 - Creep (Memo, due before Final) PDF and Fatigue (in-lab) PDF
- Lab 9 - Buckling PDF
Additional Material
- MATLAB Primer Tutorial by Edward Kamen & Bonnie Heck (sections 2-4 are
nonrelevant for ME354) PDF