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Courses Handbook 2013

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Information for the previous year's courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2012.

308802 (v.1) Strength of Materials 232

Area: Department of Mechanical Engineering
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
Tuition Patterns: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Science Laboratory: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 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
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.
Unit references, texts, outcomes and assessment details The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Field of Education: 030701 Mechanical Engineering
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2013 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2013 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 1 Y        
2013 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

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