This course's required textbook is Engineering Mechanics for Structures, written by Professor Louis Bucciarelli in 2002. This section contains links to full text versions of the book chapters.
Book Chapters
- Chapter 1 - Introduction (PDF)
- Chapter 2 - Static Equilibrium Force and Moment (PDF)
- Chapter 3 - Internal Forces and Moments (PDF)
- Chapter 4 - Stress (PDF)
- Chapter 5 - Indeterminate Systems (PDF)
- Chapter 6 - Strain (PDF)
- Chapter 7 - Material Properties and Failure Phenomena (PDF)
- Chapter 8 - Stresses/Deflections Shafts in Torsion (PDF)
- Chapter 9 - Stresses: Beams in Bending (PDF)
- Chapter 10 - Deflections Due to Bending (PDF)
Course notes.
| week # |
ses # |
Topics |
readings |
| Week 1 |
Lec 1 |
Introduction |
1.1-1.4 |
| Lab 0 |
Use of Spreadsheet |
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| Lec 2 |
Concept of Force |
2.1 |
| Week 2 |
Lec 3 |
Concept of Moment |
2.2 |
| Lab 1 |
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| Lec 4 |
Static Equilibrium Requirements |
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| Lab 2 |
Design Exercise 1 |
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| Lec 5 |
Truss Structures |
3.1 |
| Week 3 |
Lec 6 |
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| Lab 3 |
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| Lec 7 |
Beam Structures |
3.2 |
| Lab 4 |
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| Lec 8 |
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| Week 4 |
Lec 9 |
Design Exercise 2 |
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| Lab 5 |
Torsion of Circular Shafts |
3.3 |
| Lec 10 |
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| Lab 6 |
Thin Cylinder Under Pressure |
3.4 |
| Lec 11 |
Concept of Stress |
4.1 |
| Week 5 |
Lec 12 |
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| Lab 7 |
Stress Component Transformation |
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| Lec 13 |
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| Lab 8 |
Stress Fields |
4.2 |
| Quiz 1 |
Quiz 1 |
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| Week 6 |
Lab 9 |
Indeterminate Systems |
5.1 |
| Lec 14 |
Compatibility of Deformation |
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| Lec 15 |
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| Week 7 |
Lec 16 |
Truss Matrix Analysis |
5.2 |
| Lab 10 |
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| Lec 17 |
Design Exercise 3 |
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| Lab 11 |
Concept of Strain |
6.1 |
| Lec 18 |
Strain Component Transformation |
6.2 |
| Week 8 |
Lec 19 |
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| Lab 12 |
Material Properties / Stress-Strain Relationship |
7.1-7.3 |
| Lec 20 |
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| Lab 13 |
Modes of Failure |
7.4 |
| Lec 21 |
Stress / Deflections Shafts in Torsion |
8.1-8.6 |
| Week 9 |
Lec 22 |
Design
Exercise 4 |
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| Lab 14 |
Stresses - Beams in Bending |
9.1-9.3 |
| Lec 23 |
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| Lab 15 |
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| Lec 24 |
Shear Stresses in Beams |
9.4 |
| Week 10 |
Lec 25 |
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| Quiz 2 |
Quiz 2 |
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| Lec 26 |
Stresses in Composite Beams |
9.5 |
| Week 11 |
Lec 27 |
Design Exercise 5 |
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| Lab 16 |
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| Lec 28 |
Deflections Due to Bending |
10.1 |
| Lab 17 |
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| Lec 29 |
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| Week 12 |
Lec 30 |
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| Lab 18 |
Buckling of Beams |
10.2 |
| Lec 31 |
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| Week 13 |
Lec 32 |
Design Exercise 6 |
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| Lab 19 |
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| Lec 33 |
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| Lab 20 |
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| Week 14 |
Lec 34 |
Frame Matrix Analysis |
10.3 |
| Lec 35 |
Some Special Methods |
5.3, 10.4 |