CVEN 305-504 Syllabus
MECHANICS OF MATERIALS
Fall 2009 - C.E. Room 110
TR 12:45 pm - 2:00 pm

Professor: Lee L. Lowery, Jr., PhD, P.E.

Office: Old CE Building, Room 139C
Phone: 979-845-4395 (Office), 979-775-5401 (Home)
e-mail:
Lowery@tamu.edu

Office Hours:
  • MWF 8:00 am - 10:00 am, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
  • TR 3:00 p.m. -  5:00 p.m.

Half of my time is spent teaching CVEN 305 and CVEN 446. During the remaining hours I serve as a Departmental Adviser and have limited time for tutoring. Please plan on assistance either during my office hours, or see the tutor during their office hours. On MWF from 10:00 and on TR from 10:30 until I go to classes I am preparing for my upcoming classes.  Please note that you won't find me during those hours. Don't wait until just before class to get help or you likely won't get any.

I try and keep my calendar up to date, and to add unexpected meetings as they arise. However, it will always be in your best interests to call before you come by, unless you are already in the area. 

Teaching Associate: Avery Ambrose
   Office: Old Civil Engineering Building   
   Room 010 (In the basement)
   Desk: Has CVEN 305 sign over desk
   Phone: 845-0262
   Office Hours for CVEN 305 Assistance: 
           MW 2:30 to 4:00 pm
           TR 1:30 to 3:00 pm
   e-mail: aambros1@tamu.edu
 

Textbook: The textbook is excellent - one of the best:

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Catalog Description:

Stress/deformation relationships for continuous media to structural members; axially loaded members; thin-walled pressure vessels; torsional and flexural members; shear; moment; deflection of members; combined loadings; stability of columns; non-symmetrical bending, shear center; indeterminate members; elastic foundations. Prerequisite Satisfactory completion of CVEN 221 or equivalent (Statics).

Course Objectives:

Learning Outcomes - This course emphasizes the following ABET Learning Outcomes. Note that the letters refer to those used by ABET.

Course Prerequisites:

To take CVEN 305, you must have been admitted to upper level in Civil Engineering, and have received a passing grade (no D's, F's or I's) in CVEN 221 and completed MATH 251.

Course Assessment:

Syllabus Information:

Resources available to the student:

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Course Schedule:

NOTE ON HOMEWORK:
The homework assignments may have to be modified from that shown below, depending on our progress during the semester.
Please check the list frequently for changes.

Week) Dates

Textbook Reading Assignments

Daily Problem Assignments

All homework is due one week after assigned, before you sit down for class, unless noted otherwise. Homework handed in at the end of class will be counted late.

 

Homework is assigned on the dates shown below, and is due one week later, unless otherwise noted.

1) 9/1 - 9/3

Sections 1.1 - 1.13   

Introduction - Concept of Stress    

Tuesday Assignment:
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.9, 1.13, 1.15

Thursday Assignment:
1.16, 1.20, 1.22, 1.25, 1.30, 1.39, 1.44, 1.51

2) 9/8 – 9/10

Sections 2.1 - 2.9

Introduction - Statically indeterminate problems

Tuesday Assignment:
2.1, 2.4, 2.7, 2.9, 2.10, 2.13, 2.14, 2.16

Thursday Assignment:.
2.24, 2.26, 2.33, 2.35, 2.36, 2.39, 2.45

3) 9/15 - 9/17

Sections 2.10-2.12, 2.14, 2.17-2.19, 3.1- 3.4

Problems involving temperature change - Plastic deformations

Torsion - Introduction - Stress in the elastic range

Tuesday Assignment:
2.47, 2.49, 2.51, 2.58, 2.61, 2.63, 2.79

Thursday Assignment:
2.81, 2.94, 2.97, 3.3, 3.7, 3.11, 3.13, 3.15

4) 9/22 - 9/24

Sections 3.5 - 3.8

Angle of twist - Stress concentrations

At this point, students are strongly encouraged to study Appendix A thoroughly If you are unable to solve for the centroid and moment of inertia of shapes from your CVEN 221 class you are unlikely to survive the coming sections.

Tuesday Assignment:
3.21, 3.23, 3.33, 3.36, 3.37, 3.49, 3.52

Thursday Assignment:
3.54, 3.55, 3.57, 3.67, 3.73, 3.76, 3.84, 3.90

5) 9/29 - 10/1

Sections  4.1-4.4, 4.6-4.7

Bending - Introduction - stresses - deformations
Stress concentrations

Tuesday Assignment:
4.2, 4.3, 4.5, 4.7, 4.9, 4.10, 4.15, 4.17

Thursday Assignment:
4.21, 4.26, 4.33, 4.34, 4.37, 4.40, 4.61, 4.63

6) 10/6 - 10/8

Sections 4.12, 4.14, 5.1-5.2

Eccentric loading
Introduction, Review of Shear and Bending Moment Diagrams, Relations among Load, Shear, and Bending Moment.

At this point, students are strongly encouraged to thoroughly review your shear and moment diagram materials learned in statics (CVEN 221).  If you are unable to solve for a shear and moment diagram from your CVEN 221 class you are unlikely to survive the coming sections.

If you need a review of this material, please see lectures for Class 20 and 22 here.

 

Tuesday Assignment:
4.102, 4.103, 4.107,
(no stress concentration factors here), (4.114 Deleted), 4.126,
(4.132b ONLY), (1.433 Deleted)

Thursday Assignment:
4.142, 4.145, 5.3, 5.5, 5.9, 5.11, 5.16, 5.23

7) 10/13 - 10/15

10/13/09 - QUIZ A

Sections 5.3,5.4

Shear and Moment Diagrams
Design of beams

Tuesday:
Quiz A - Covers through homework problem #3.90

You are permitted to bring one 8.5" x 11" cheat sheet to the quiz, hand written by you (no copies) on one side only, no example problems. Equations only.

You may also bring a copy of the F.E. Exam Reference Manual.  No notes of any kind are permitted on these sheets.

Thursday Assignment:
5.44, 5.56, 5.58, 5.61, 5.73,
5.75, 5.77, 5.79, 5.81

8) 10/20- 10/22

Sections 6.1 - 6.4, 6.6, 6.7

Shear on Horizontal Face of Beam Element, Determination of Shearing Stresses in a Beam, Shearing stresses in common types of beams.

Longitudinal shearing stresses in thin-walled members

Tuesday Assignment:
6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.5, 6.6,
6.10, 6.11, 6.13

Thursday Assignment:
6.16, 6.21, 6.29, 6.30,
6.36, 6.37, 6.41, 6.45

9) 10/27 -10/29

Sections 7.1 - 7.3

Transformation of plane stress, Principal stresses (normal and shear)

Tuesday Assignment:
7.1, (7.3 Deleted), 7.13, 7.16,
7.17, 7.5, 7.6, 7.8, 7.9

Thursday Assignment:
7.10, 7.12, 7.19, 7.20,
7.21, 7.27, 7.29

10) 11/3 - 11/5

Sections 7.4, 7.6, 7.9

Mohr's circle for plane stress, Application of Mohr's circle to 3-dimensional analysis of stress, Stresses in thin-walled pressure vessels.

Tuesday Assignment:
7.31, 7.32, 7.34, 7.49, 7.51,
7.55, (7.68 Deleted)

Thursday Assignment:
7.70, 7.98, 7.104, 7.108,
7.115, 7.117, 7.120

11) 11/10 - 11/12

Sections 9.1-9.3, 9.5

Beam deformations under transverse loading, Equation of elastic curve.

Statically indeterminate beams.

Tuesday Assignment:
9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.5, 9.6,
9.7, 9.8, 9.9

Thursday Assignment:
9.10, 9.13, 9.19,
9.20, 9.21, 9.25

12) 11/17 - 11/19

Sections 9.6 - 9.7  

Using singularity functions to determine slopes and deflections of beams.

Method of superposition

Tuesday Assignment:
9.35, 9.36, 9.39,
9.45, 9.49, 9.53

Thursday Assignment:
9.54, 9.65, 9.73,
9.75, 9.78

13) 11/24 - 11/26

 

 11/24/09 - QUIZ B

Thanksgiving Holiday

Tuesday:

Quiz B - Covers everything through homework problem #7.55.  Emphasis will be on material covered since Quiz A, but you are responsible for everything covered.

You are permitted to bring one 8.5" x 11" cheat sheet to the quiz, hand written by you (no copies) on TWO SIDES, no example problems. Equations only.

You may also bring a copy of the F.E. Exam Reference Manual.  No notes of any kind are permitted on these sheets.

Thursday Assignment:
Eat turkey

14) 12/1 - 12/3     

Sections 9.8, 10.1-10.4, 10.6

Application of superposition to statically indeterminate beams, Introduction to columns.

Tuesday Assignment:
9.79, 9.81, 9.86, 10.9, 10.10
Thursday Assignment: (Due next class):
10.12, 10.14, 10.20, 10.21, 10.23

15) 12/8           

Catch Up and review

Pick up any old homework outside of my office in a day or two.

12/16

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Final Exam: 12/16/2009
Wed, 8:00 a.m. to 10 a.m.

 Final Exam - Open book, plus your one-page cheat sheet. Exam covers everything in the course, with emphasis on the materials after Quiz B. Approximate target coverage:
25% Quiz A
25% Quiz B
50% after Quiz B

You may also bring a copy of the F.E. Exam Reference Manual.  No notes of any kind are permitted on these sheets.

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