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Courses Handbook 2011

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2011.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2010.

308802 (v.1) Strength of Materials 232

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Area: Department of Mechanical Engineering
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory: 2 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 307529 (v.4) Engineering Mechanics 100 or any previous version
AND
    307533 (v.3) Engineering Materials 100 or any previous version
    OR
    10223 (v.3) Chemistry 184 or any previous version
AND
    307535 (v.3) Engineering Mathematics 110 or any previous version
    OR
    307536 (v.4) Engineering Mathematics 120 or any previous version
    OR
    7062 (v.6) Mathematics 101 or any previous version
    OR
    10926 (v.5) Mathematics 103 or any previous version
AND
    307537 (v.3) Engineering Mathematics 130 or any previous version
    OR
    307538 (v.3) Engineering Mathematics 140 or any previous version
    OR
    7063 (v.6) Mathematics 102 or any previous version
    OR
    7492 (v.5) Mathematics 104 or any previous version
AND
307543 (v.5) Electrical Systems 100 or any previous version
AND
    310206 (v.2) Engineering Foundations: Principles and Communication 100 or any previous version
    OR
    301995 (v.5) Communication Skills 116 or any previous version
Syllabus: Introduction for Strength of Materials. Normal stresses and strains. Shear stresses and strains. Hooke’s law in tension and shear, Poisson’s ratio. The concepts of allowable stresses, factor of safety. Computation of changes in length of axially loaded members, uniform and nonuniform bars. Statically indeterminate structures. Formulation of the torsion formula and its applications. Stresses and strains in pure shear. Types of beams and different boundary conditions. Construction of shear force and bending diagrams. Formulation and applications of flexure formula based on the Euler beam theory. Design of beams for bending stresses. Formulation of the shear formula. Design of beams for shear stresses. Centroids and second moments of plane sections. Parallel axis theorem. Analysis of stresses and strains for plane stress problems. Mohr’s circle for plane problems. Thin-walled pressure vessels. Combined loadings. Deflections of beams, the integration methods.
Field of Education: 030701 Mechanical Engineering
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Supplemental
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2011 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2011 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 1 Y        
2011 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External