Daily Schedule - Sp25

ME 323: Mechanics of Materials

This page is set up to provide you with links to course material that is directly related to each class period. Please use this as a guideline for your daily work in the course.

Please note that most of the lecture book examples are found in the lecture book; however, to reduce the length of the lecture book, some of the examples have been moved from the lecture book to the Lecturebook examples page on this website. These examples are indicated by ( )** on this page. The conceptual questions listed below are also found on the Lecturebook examples page.

Week 1: 1/13-1/17 Week 2: 1/20-1/24
Week 3: 1/27-1/31 Week 4: 2/3-2/7
Week 5: 2/10-14 Week 6: 2/17-2/21
Week 7: 2/24-2/28 Week 8: 3/3-3/7
Week 9: 3/10-3/14 Week 10: 3/24-3/28
Week 11: 3/31-4/4 Week 12: 4/7-4/11
Week 13: 4/14-4/18 Week 14: 4/21-4/25
Week 15: 4/28-5/2

 

QUICK LINKS
Animations and demos
Course information
General discussion
Homework/Discussion
Lecture book examples

WEEK 1

Monday, January 13
Introduction: Static equilibrium and stress

Lecture book reading: Chapter 1
Lecture book video: Example 1.1
Lecture book video: Example 1.2
Lecture book video: Example 1.3
Lecture book video: Example 1.4**
Lecture book video: Example 1.5
Lecture book video: Example 1.6
Lecture book video: Example 1.7**
Lecture book video: Example 1.8**
Daily summary: statics review
Supplementary video: Moment of a Force

Wednesday, January 15
Normal stress and strain: material properties

Lecture book reading: Chapter 2
Lecture book video: Example 2.1**
Lecture book video: Example 2.2**
Lecture book video: Example 2.3**
Lecture book video: Example 2.4
Lecture book video: Example 2.5**
Lecture book video: Example 2.6 (in book)
Lecture book video: Example 2.7
Lecture book video: Example 2.8**
Lecture book video: Example 2.9**
Conceptual questions: 2.1, 2.2
Animations and demos: Poisson's ratio
Daily summary: normal stress and strain
Relevant youtube video: Poisson's ratio
Relevant youtube video: Understanding Young's Modulus

Friday, January 17
Shear stress and strain

Lecture book reading: Chapter 3
Lecture book video: Example 3.1
Lecture book video: Example 3.2
Lecture book video: Example 3.3
Lecture book video: Example 3.4**
Lecture book video: Example 3.5
Lecture book video: Example 3.6
Lecture book video: Example 3.7**
Lecture book conceptual questions: 3.1
Animations and demos: strains in rods
Daily summary: shear stress and strain

 

WEEK 2

Monday, January 20
No class: University holiday

Wednesday, January 22
Stress: introduction to design

Lecture book reading: Chapter 4
Lecture book video: Example 4.1
Lecture book video: Example 4.2
Lecture book video: Example 4.3
Lecture book video: Example 4.4**
Lecture book video: Example 4.5
Lecture book video: Example 4.6**
Daily summary: failure analysis
Relevant youtube video: Stress and strain

Friday, January 24
Stress and strain: general definitions

Lecture book reading: Chapter 5
Lecture book video: Example 5.1**
Lecture book video: Example 5.2**
Lecture book video: Example 5.3
Lecture book video: Example 5.4
Lecture book video: Example 5.5**
Lecture book video: Example 5.6
Lecture book video: Example 5.7**
Lecture book video: Example 5.8
Lecture book video: Example 5.9
Lecture book video: Example 5.10**
Conceptual questions: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
Animations: linear superposition of strains
Daily summary: 3D stress and strain

 

WEEK 3

Monday, January 27
Axial deformations: determinate structures

Lecture book reading: Chapter 6
Lecture book video: Example 6.1
Lecture book video: Example 6.2**
Lecture book video: Example 6.3
Lecture book video: Example 6.4
Lecture book video: Example 6.5**
Lecture book video: Example 6.6
Conceptual questions: 6.1, 6.10, 6.16, 6.18
Daily summary: axial deformation - determinate

Wednesday, January 29
Axial deformations: indeterminate structures

Lecture book reading: Chapter 6
Lecture book video: Example 6.7
Lecture book video: Example 6.8
Lecture book video: Example 6.9**
Lecture book video: Example 6.13**
Lecture book video: Example 6.14**
Conceptual questions: 6.2, 6.3, 6.5, 6.9, 6.14, 6.19
Animations: indeterminate rods
Summary: Axially-loaded members
Daily summary: axial deformation - indeterminate

Friday, January 31
Planar trusses: indeterminate structures

Lecture book reading: Chapter 6
Lecture book video: Example 6.10
Lecture book video: Example 6.11
Lecture book video: Example 6.12
Lecture book video: Example 6.15**
Conceptual questions: 6.4, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 6.11, 6.12, 6.13, 6.15, 6.17
Animations: indeterminate trusses
Daily summary: indeterminate trusses

 

WEEK 4

Monday, February 3
Axial deformations: thermal effects

Lecture book reading: Chapter 7
Lecture book video: Example 7.1
Lecture book video: Example 7.2
Lecture book video: Example 7.3
Lecture book video: Example 7.4**
Lecture book video: Example 7.5
Lecture book video: Example 7.6
Lecture book video: Example 7.7**
Conceptual questions: 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5
Animations: thermal strains
Supplementary video: Thermal effects on railway tracks
Summary: Axially-loaded members
Daily summary: thermal effects

Wednesday, February 5
Torsion members: stresses in circular shafts

Lecture book reading: Chapter 8
Lecture book video: Example 8.1
Lecture book video: Example 8.2**
Conceptual questions: 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
Daily summary: stresses in circular shafts
Supplementary video: Understanding Torsion

Friday, February 7
Torsion members: determinate

Lecture book reading: Chapter 8
Lecture book video: Example 8.3
Lecture book video: Example 8.4 (in book)
Animations: angle of twist in circular shaft
Daily summary: determinate shafts

 

WEEK 5

Monday, February 10
Torsion members: indeterminate

Lecture book reading: Chapter 8
Special notes - Elongation of shafts under torque loads
Lecture book video: Example 8.5
Lecture book video: Example 8.6
Lecture book video: Example 8.7
Lecture book video: Example 8.8**
Daily summary: indeterminate shafts

Wednesday,  February 12
Beams: flexural stresses

Lecture book reading: Chapter 10
Lecture book video: Example 10.1
Lecture book video: Example 10.2
Lecture book video: Example 10.3**
Lecture book video: Example 10.4
Daily summary: flexural stresses in beams

Friday, February 14
Beams: flexural  and shear stresses

Lecture book reading: Chapter 10
Lecture book video: Example 10.5
Lecture book video: Example 10.6
Daily summary: shear stresses in beams

 

WEEK 6

Monday, February 17
Review: Exam 1

Summary notes:  axial members (summarizing Chapters 6-8)

Wednesday, February 19
No class due to evening exam

Friday, February 21
Beams: shear stresses

Lecture book reading: Chapter 10
Lecture book video: Example 10.7
Lecture book video: Example 10.8**
Lecture book video: Example 10.9**
Lecture book video: Example 10.10
Lecture book video: Example 10.11
Lecture book video: Example 10.12**
Lecture book video: Example 10.13 (in book)
Lecture book video: Example 10.14**
Lecture book video: Example 10.15**
Conceptual questions: 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 10.10, 10.11, 10.12
Animation: shear stress in beams
Explanation video: YouTube video on stresses in beams (very nicely done)
Daily summary: general stresses in beams

 

WEEK 7

Monday, February 24
Beams: shear force/bending moment diagrams (determinate)

Lecture book reading: Chapter 9
Lecture book video: Example 9.1**
Lecture book video: Example 9.2
Lecture book video: Example 9.3
Lecture book video: Example 9.4
Lecture book video: Example 9.5**
Lecture book video: Example 9.6
Daily summary: shear force/bending moment diagrams
Supplementary video: Understanding Shear Force and Bending Moment Diagrams

 

 

Wednesday, February 26
Beams: deflections using integration (determinate)

Lecture book reading: Chapter 11
Lecture book video: Example 11.1 (in book)
Lecture book video: Example 11.2
Lecture book video: Example 11.3
Lecture book video: Example 11.4
Lecture book video: Example 11.5
Lecture book video: Example 11.6
Lecture book video: Example 11.7
Animation: beam deflections and BCs
Conceptual questions: 11.1, 11.3, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7, 
Daily summary: beam deflections (determinate)

 

Friday, February 28
Beams: deflections using integration (indeterminate)

Lecture book reading: Chapter 11
Lecture book video: Example 11.8 (in book)
Lecture book video: Example 11.9 (in book)
Lecture book video: Example 11.10
Lecture book video: Example 11.11
Conceptual questions: 11.2, 11.4
Daily summary: beam deflections (indeterminate) 1

WEEK 8

Monday, March 3
Beams: deflections using superposition 

Lecture book reading: Chapter 11
Lecture book video: Example 11.17
Lecture book video: Example 11.18**
Lecture book video: Example 11.19 (in book)
Lecture book video: Example 11.20
Lecture book video: Example 11.21 (in book)
Lecture book video: Example 11.22**
Handout: Superposition tables (also in Appendix A2 of book)
Daily summary: superposition (determinate)
Daily summary: superposition (indeterminate) 

Wednesday, March 5
Energy methods: Castigliano's method

Lecture book reading: Chapter 16
Lecture book video: Example 16.1
Lecture book video: Example 16.2
Lecture book video: Example 16.3
Daily summary: Castigliano 1

Friday, March 7
Energy methods: Castigliano's method

Lecture book reading: Chapter 16
Lecture book video: Example 16.4 (in book)
Lecture book video: Example 16.5
Lecture book video: Example 16.6 (in book)
Lecture book video: Example 16.7 (in book)
Daily summary: Castigliano 2

 

WEEK 9

Monday, March 10
Energy methods: Castigliano's method

Lecture book reading: Chapter 16
Lecture book video: Example 16.8A
Lecture book video: Example 16.8B
Lecture book video: Example 16.8C
Lecture book video: Example 16.8D
Daily summary: Castigliano 3

Wednesday, March 12
Energy methods: Castigliano's method

Lecture book reading: Chapter 16
Lecture book video: Example 16.9
Lecture book video: Example 16.10**
Daily summary: Castigliano 3

Friday, March 14
Shear force/bending moment diagrams (indeterminate)

Special problems to be supplied

March 17-21
Spring break 

 

WEEK 10

Monday, March 24
Exam review 

Wednesday, March 26
No class due to evening exam

Friday, March 28
Shear force/bending moment diagrams (indeterminate)

Special problems to be supplied

Friday, March 28
Energy methods: finite element method

Lecture book reading: Chapter 17
Lecture book video: Example 17.1 (in book)
Lecture book video: Example 17.2 (in book)
Animation: building FE stiffness matrix and forcing vector
Daily summary: finite element method 

WEEK 11

Monday, March 31
Energy methods: finite element method

Lecture book reading: Chapter 17
Lecture book video: Example 17.3 
Lecture book video: Example 17.4 (in book)
Animation: building FE stiffness matrix and forcing vector
Daily summary: building a finite element model

Wednesday, April 2
Energy methods: finite element method

Lecture book reading: Chapter 17
Examples using plane stress finite element analysis (in book)

Friday, April 4
Stress analysis: thin-walled pressure vessels

Lecture book reading: Chapter 12
Lecture book video: Example 12.1
Lecture book video: Example 12.2
Lecture book video: Example 12.3**
Lecture book video: Example 12.4
Conceptual questions: 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4
Daily summary: thin-walled pressure vessels 1
Daily summary: thin-walled pressure vessels 2

WEEK 12

Monday, April 7
Stress transformations: principal/maximum shear stresses

Lecture book reading: Chapter 13
Lecture book video: Example 13.1
Lecture book video: Example 13.2
Lecture book video: Example 13.3
Daily summary: stress transformations 1

Wednesday, April 9
Stress transformations: Mohr's circle

Lecture book reading: Chapter 13
Lecture book video: Example 13.4
Lecture book video: Example 13.5
Conceptual questions: 13.1, 13.2, 13.6, 13.7
Supplementary Video: Understanding Stress Transformation
Animation: the Mohr Explainer
Animation: becoming familiar with Mohr's circles
Animation: Some Mohr's circle examples
Interactive exercises: Mohr's circle game, Part 1
Interactive exercises: Mohr's circle game, Part 2
Daily summary: stress transformations 2

Friday, April 11
Stress transformations: absolute maximum shear stress

Lecture book reading: Chapter 13
Lecture book video: Example 13.6
Lecture book video: Example 13.7
Lecture book video: Example 13.8
Lecture book video: Example 13.9
Lecture book video: Example 13.10**
Lecture book video: Example 13.11**
Lecture book video: Example 13.12**
Conceptual questions: 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 13.9
Daily summary: stress transformations 3

 

WEEK 13

Monday, April 14
Stresses: combined loadings

Lecture book reading: Chapter 14
Lecture book video: Example 14.1**
Lecture book video: Example 14.2
Lecture book video: Example 14.3**
Lecture book video: Example 14.4
Conceptual questions: 14.1
Animation: stresses due to combined loadings

Wednesday, April 16
Stresses: combined loadings

Lecture book reading: Chapter 14
Lecture book video: Example 14.5
Lecture book video: Example 14.6
Lecture book video: Example 14.7**

Friday, April 18
Stresses: combined loadings

Lecture book reading: Chapter 14
Lecture book video: Example 14.8**
Lecture book video: Example 14.10 (in book)
Lecture book video: Example 14.11
Lecture book video: Example 14.12

 

WEEK 14

Monday, April 21
Failure analysis: stress theories

Lecture book reading: Chapter 15
Lecture book video: Example 15.1
Lecture book video: Example 15.2
Lecture book video: Example 15.3**
Lecture book video: Example 15.4
Lecture book video: Example 15.5**
Conceptual questions: 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
Download: Mohr's circle review questions

Wednesday, April 23
Failure analysis: stress theories

Lecture book reading: Chapter 15
Lecture book video: Example 15.6
Lecture book video: Example 15.7
Animation: relating principal stress components to Mohr's circle
Summary: stress failure theories

Friday, April 25
Failure analysis: Buckling of columns

Lecture book reading: Chapter 18
Lecture book video: Example 18.1
Lecture book video: Example 18.2
Lecture book video: Example 18.3**
Lecture book video: Example 18.4
Lecture book video: Example 18.5**
Conceptual questions: 18.3, 18.4, 18.5, 18.6, 18.7, 18.8
Animation: simple buckling model
Daily summary: column buckling

 

WEEK 15

Monday, April 28
Practice with combined loadings and failure analysis

Special problems to be supplied

Wednesday, April 30
Practice with combined loadings and failure analysis

Special problems to be supplied

Friday, May 2
Course review