MECH 3020 ---- Mechanics of Solid II (Fall 2012-2013)

Course Description: Bi-axial stress state and failure criteria; thick-walled

cylinders and spinning disks; bending of plates; elastic foundations;
unsymmetric bending and torsion; curved beams; frame analysis; energy
methods; plastic collapse and limit analysis.

Prerequisites: MECH 101

Course Website: http://www.me.ust.hk/~meqpsun

Textbook: Robert D. Cook and Warren C. Young

Advanced Mechanics of Materials.
Macmillan Publishing Company, 1998

Instructor: Prof. Qing-Ping SUN

Office: Room 2556; Tel: 2358 8655;
Email: meqpsun@ust.hk

TA: XIA Minglu

Office: Room 2125A; Tel: 2358 7199
E-mail: mxiaaa@ust.hk

LI Qi
Office: Room 2209E; Tel: 2358 8811
E-mail: qliab@ust.hk

Homework assignment:

Grading Policy: Homework 30%

Mid-exam 30%
Final-exam 40%

Supplementary Text: A. P. Boresi, R. J. Schmidt and O. M.

Sidebottom, Advanced Mechanics of
Materials, 5/E, John Wiley & Sons, 1993.

Laboratory Work: No

Lecture Contents:

1. Stress, strain, energy and failure (1.5 week)

Bi-axial stress state, stress-strain-temperature relations, strain
energy
Failure and failure criteria (theory of failure)
Stress concentration, fatigue and fracture
2. Thick-walled cylinders and spinning disks (2 weeks)
Thick-walled cylinders under pressure Spinning disks of constant
thickness Spinning disks of variable thickness Thermal stresses in
cylinders and disks
3. Bending of plates (1.5 week)
Governing equation of bending and solution
Solution of superposition
4. Elastic foundations (2 weeks)
Foundation models
Equation of beam on elastic foundation
Infinite and semi-infinite beam with concentrated load
Beam with distributed load
Contact stress
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5. Unsymmetric bending and torsion (1.5 weeks)
Unsymmetric bending of straight beams
Shear stress, shear flow and shear center
Shear center in open and closed sections
6. Curved beams and frame analysis(l.5 weeks)
Stress in the curved beams
Shear and bending moment diagram, Stress in frame
7. Plastic collapse and limit analysis (1.5 week)
Ductility and bars with axial loading
Plastic bending and plastic hinges
Collapse loads in beams and limit analysis
8. Energy Methods (2 week)
Strain energy and its expression
Principle of stationary potential energy
Several degrees of freedom, Castigliano's first theorem
Principle of stationary complementary energy
Castigliano's second theorem

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