Strength of Material

Concept of Elastic body stress and Strain stress strain diagram Hooke’s law Various types of stress and strains Elastic constants Stresses in compound bars composite and tapering bars Temperature stresses strain energy under axial loads stresses due to impact of falling weights Complex Stress and Strains Normal and tangential stresses Principal Planes Principal Stresses and Strains Mohr’s circle of stresses

Theory of simple bending Concept of pure bending and bending stress Equation of bending Neutral axis Section-Modulus Determination of bending stresses in simply supported Cantilever and Overhanging beams Bending stress distribution across a section of beam strain energy in bending Shearing Stress in a beam and shear stress distribution

Differential equation of the elastic curve Determination of Slope and Deflection of beams by Double Integration Method Macaulay’s Method Area Moment Method Strain Energy Method

Concept of pure torsion Torsion equation Determination of shear stress and angle of twist of shafts Torsion of solid and hollow circular shafts Analyses of problems based on combined Bending and Torsion Theories of Failure

Theory of columns Slenderness ratio Direct and bending stresses in short columns Stability of structures Euler’s formula for columns Rankine’s formula Eccentric loads and the Secant formula Imperfections in columns Thin Pressure Vessels cylinders and spheres Stress due to internal pressure Change in diameter and volume