Solid Mechanics

As taught in: Fall 2004

Level:

Undergraduate

Instructors:

Prof. Louis Bucciarelli

Course Features

Course Highlights

Course Description

Illustration of a cantilevered beam by Galileo. (Image adapted by Professor Louis Bucciarelli.)

Course Highlights

This course features an online version of the textbook for the course (Engineering Mechanics for Structures, written by Professor Louis L. Bucciarelli) in the readingssection. This course also has virtually all of its materials online, including real toolsand data, interactive exercises, and design exercises in the assignments section.

Course Description

1.050 is a sophomore-level engineering mechanics course, commonly labelled "Statics and Strength of Materials" or "Solid Mechanics I." This course introduces students to the fundamental principles and methods of structural mechanics. Topics covered include: static equilibrium, force resultants, support conditions, analysis of determinate planar structures (beams, trusses, frames), stresses and strains in structural elements, states of stress (shear, bending, torsion), statically indeterminate systems, displacements and deformations, introduction to matrix methods, elastic stability, and approximate methods. Design exercises are used to encourage creative student initiative and systems thinking.

Objectives

The aim is to introduce students to the fundamental concepts and principles applied by engineers - whether civil, mechanical, aeronautical, etc. - in the design of structures of all sorts of sizes and purpose. We build upon the mathematics and physics courses of the freshman year, extending Newtonian Mechanics to address and understand the elastic behavior of trusses and frames, beams and cylinders. We aim also to engage students in the formulation and resolution of open-ended, design-type exercises, thereby bridging the divide between scientific theory and engineering practice.

Textbook

Bucciarelli, Louis. Engineering Mechanics for Structures, Fall 2002. (The full text is published in the readings section.)

Also required: Mead Quad Composition notebook.

Other Resources

Crandall, S., N. Dahl, and T. Lardner. An Intro. to the Mechanics of Solids. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1978. ISBN: 0070134367.

Gere, James. Mechanics of Materials. 6th ed. New York, NY: Thomson Engineering Publishing, 2003. ISBN: 0534417930.

Lecture Notes

Each lecture includes a series of in class exercises that address the topic of the day. Those are included here.

WEEK #	SES #	TOPICS	IN CLASS EXERCISES
Week 1	Lec 1	Introduction	In Class Exercise 1 (PDF)
	Lab 0	Use of Spreadsheet
	Lec 2	Concept of Force	In Class Exercise 2 (PDF)
Week 2	Lec 3	Concept of Moment	In Class Exercise 3 (PDF)
	Lab 1
	Lec 4	Static Equilibrium Requirements	In Class Exercise 4 (PDF) In Class Exercise 4A (PDF)
	Lab 2	Design Exercise 1
	Lec 5	Truss Structures	In Class Exercise 5 (PDF)
Week 3	Lec 6		In Class Exercise 6 (PDF)
	Lab 3
	Lec 7	Beam Structures	In Class Exercise 7 (PDF)
	Lab 4
	Lec 8		In Class Exercise 8 (PDF)
Week 4	Lec 9	Design Exercise 2	In Class Exercise 9 (PDF)
	Lab 5	Torsion of Circular Shafts
	Lec 10		In Class Exercise 10 (PDF)
	Lab 6	Thin Cylinder Under Pressure
	Lec 11	Concept of Stress	In Class Exercise 11 (PDF)
Week 5	Lec 12		In Class Exercise 12 (PDF)
	Lab 7	Stress Component Transformation
	Lec 13		In Class Exercise 13 (PDF)
	Lab 8	Stress Fields
	Quiz 1	Quiz 1
Week 6	Lab 9	Indeterminate Systems
	Lec 14	Compatibility of Deformation	In Class Exercise 14 (PDF)
	Lec 15		In Class Exercise 15 (PDF)
Week 7	Lec 16	Truss Matrix Analysis	In Class Exercise 16 (PDF)
	Lab 10
	Lec 17	Design Exercise 3	In Class Exercise 17 (PDF)
	Lab 11	Concept of Strain
	Lec 18	Strain Component Transformation	In Class Exercise 18 (PDF)
Week 8	Lec 19		In Class Exercise 19 (PDF)
	Lab 12	Material Properties / Stress-Strain Relationship
	Lec 20		In Class Exercise 20 (PDF)
	Lab 13	Modes of Failure
	Lec 21	Stress / Deflections Shafts in Torsion	In Class Exercise 21 (PDF)
Week 9	Lec 22	Design Exercise 4	In Class Exercise 22 (PDF)
	Lab 14	Stresses - Beams in Bending
	Lec 23		In Class Exercise 23 (PDF)
	Lab 15
	Lec 24	Shear Stresses in Beams	In Class Exercise 24 (PDF)
Week 10	Lec 25		In Class Exercise 25 (PDF)
	Quiz 2	Quiz 2
	Lec 26	Stresses in Composite Beams	In Class Exercise 26 (PDF)
Week 11	Lec 27	Design Exercise 5
	Lab 16
	Lec 28	Deflections Due to Bending
	Lab 17
	Lec 29
Week 12	Lec 30
	Lab 18	Buckling of Beams
	Lec 31
Week 13	Lec 32	Design Exercise 6
	Lab 19
	Lec 33
	Lab 20
Week 14	Lec 34	Frame Matrix Analysis
	Lec 35	Some Special Methods