CEE 459 - Advanced Mechanics of Materials
Spring 2004

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Text: Advanced Strength and Applied Elasticity, 4th ed., by Ugural and Fenster

Week

Topics

Text / Class Notes

Homework

Week 1
3/29 - 4/4

Stresses.  Equilibrium. Tractions. Boundary Conditions.  Two-Dimensional Problems.

Transformation Laws.  

Principal Stresses.

Text, Chapter 1- Analysis of Stress.

Notes, Chapter 1:
Analysis of Stress - Part 1. Analysis of Stress - Part 2.

Week 2
4/5 - 4/11

Displacements. Strains. Compatibility. Two-Dimensional States.  Transformation Laws.  Principal Strains.

Stress-Strain Relations.

Strain Energy.

Text, Chapter 2 - Strain and Stress-Strain Relations.

Notes, Chapter 2:
Analysis of Strain

Chapter 3:
Linear Elasticity

Week 3
4/12 - 4/18

Two-Dimensional Problems: Plane Strain, Plane Stress. The Semi-Inverse Approach.  Airy Stress Function.

Text, Chapter 5 - Bending of Beams: Secs. 5.4, 5.5.

Notes, Chapter 4:
Two-Dimensional Problems

Week 4
4/19 - 4/25

Thermal Stresses.

Relations in Polar Coordinates.

Stress Concentrations.

Text, Chapter 3: Secs. 3.7 - 3.12. 

Notes, Chapter 4:  Thermal Problems

Test 1 F 4/23 

Week 5
4/26 - 5/2

Bending of Beams: Engineering Theory. Asymmetric Bending. Shear Center.

Shear Deformation.

Text, Chapter 5:  Secs. 5.1 - 5.3, 5.6, 5.7, 5.10 - 5.12.

Notes, Chapter 5:
Bending Of Beams

Week 6
5/3 - 5/9

Curved Beams: Winkler's Theory.

Text, Chapter 5: Secs. 5.13 - 5.15.

Week 7
5/10 - 5/16

Notes, Chapter 7:
Torsion of Thin-Walled Closed Tubes

Week 8
5/17 - 5/23

Test 2 F 5/21 

Week 9
5/24 - 5/30

Text: Chapter 10 - Energy Methods: Secs. 10.1-10.7.

Notes, Chapter 9:
Energy Theorems and Methods - Part I

Week 10
5/31 - 6/4

5/31 Holiday

Notes, Chapter 10:
Energy Theorems and Methods - Part II