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Mechanics of Solids 1 - MMAN2400
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Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 6
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite:MATH1231 or MATH1241 and MMAN1300
 
 
Equivalent: MECH2411
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
  

Description

This is the fundamental engineering course for mechanical engineers, with content as follows: Stress, strain. tension/compression test, stress/strain diagram and relationships, Hooke's law, strain energy, Poisson's ratio. shear stress/strain diagram, failure due to creep and fatigue, axial (thermal) stress/strain, geometrical properties of plane figures & second moment of area, simple bending stress, deflections in beams, torsion of circular shafts, helical springs, statically determinate/indeterminate systems, introduction to finite elements, combined stresses, membrane stresses in thin cylindrical and spherical pressure vessels, stress/strain variation at a point in 2D (Mohr's circle), stress variation in 3D.


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