MECH 4300

Course topics include: general state of stress, equilibrium equations, stress-strain-temperature relations, plane stress, axisymmetrical stress problems, thick cylindrical pressure vessels, rotating disks, bending of rectangular and circular plates, torsion of non-circular members, membrane analogy, thin-walled hollow sections, non-symmetrical bending, properties of cross-sections, shear center, composite beams, plastic hinge. Energy Methods, Castigliano's theorems, statically indeterminate problems.