State Program Facilitating Unit (SPFU), TEQIP - II

Institutions
Course Title : Strength of Materials
Course Code : AM-632
B.E. Semester: III- Civil Engineering

Degree Programs in which

this course is offered
B.E. Semester III Civil
Engineering

Pre-requisite Course
Co- requisite Course
Type of Course
Course Difficulty level
Course offered in
Academic year

Mechanics of Solids

Core
2014 2015

TEACHING AND EXAMINATION SCHEME

Teaching Scheme
(In Hours)

Total
Cre
dits

Examination Scheme
Theory Marks

Practical Marks

TotalMarks

(L+T+P)
L

SS

ESE

PA

70

30

ESE
Pr/Viva
30

PA
150
20

Legends:
L - Lecture; T - Tutorial/Teacher Guided Student Activity; P - Practical; SS Self
Study; C - Credit; ESE - End Semester Examination; PA - Progressive Assessment

COUSRSE DETAILS
Unit - 1

Topics
and
Subtopics

Statically Determinate Structures

Teaching
Hours

Analysis of support reactions, Internal forces in trusses,

beams, cables, Arches & Frames; Consideration of
concentrated loads, moments/couples, Uniformly
Distributed Loads (UDL), Uniformly Varying Loads (UVL)

10

Analysis of slopes & Deflection in beams: Double

Integration Method, Macaulays Method, Conjugate beam,
moment area method, unit load method.

Unit 2
Topics
and
Subtopics

Compound Stresses & Strains

Unit 3

(A) Normal Stresses in bending: Theory of bending,

Strength in bending- Efficient Shape of section, beam of
uniform stress

Combined Flexure & Direct stresses

Combined flexure and direct stress of core section

Application: Walls, Dams, chimneys, earth pressure on

retaining walls.

Unit 5

Torsion of cylindrical shaft, Torsion formulae, Torsion

stiffness, Torsional rigidity, Power Transmitted by shaft,
Torsion combined with bending, shear and thrust.

Strain Energy

Work done, strain energy, Proof Resilience, Modulus of

Resilience, strain energy due to axial force- bendingshear- torsion.

Stresses due to gradual load, sudden load and impact load.

Unit 7
Topics
and
Subtopics

Torsion

Unit 6

Topics
and
Subtopics

(B) Shear Stresses in bending: Shear Stresses in

Symmetrical elastic beams.

Unit 4

Topics
and
Subtopics

Bending of Beams

Topics
and
Subtopics

Topics
and
Subtopics

Principal Planes & Principal Stresses, Mohrs circle of

stress, Principal Strains (Analytical Method)

Column & Strut

Short and slender column, Eulers Formulae, for long

column, Rankines Formula.

Total

34

 SUGGESTED LIST OF EXERCISES/PRACTICAL

Sr.
No.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7

Unit No.
1
1
2
3
4
4
7

Apprx. Hrs.
Required

Practical/ Exercise
Deflection of Cantilever beam
Deflection of Simply supported beam
Principal Stresses & Strain Experiment
Bending stresses in beams
Torsion Test Experiment
Combined Bending and Torsion of circular shaft
Elastic Buckling of column

1
1
2
2
2
2
2
Total 12

SUGGESTED LEARNING RESOURCES

A. List of Books
S.
Title of Books
No.

Author

Publication

Mechanics of Materials

Beer and Johnston

McGraw-Hill
Publications

Mechanics of Structure Vol. I

S. B. Junnarkar & H. J. Shah

Charotar
Publishing
House Pvt.
Ltd.

Mechanics of Materials

Punmia and Jain

Laxmi
Publication

Mechanics of Materials

R.C. Hibbler

Pearson

Mechanics of Materials

Gere & Goodno

Cengage
Learning

Engineering Mechanics of Solids

Egor P. Popov

Prentice Hall
Publication

Strength of Materials

Dr. Sadhu Singh

Khanna
Publication

Strength of Materials

S. Ramamrutham

Dhanpat Rai
Publicaton

Strength of Materials

Naga & Chanda

John Wiley
India

B. Learning Websites

http://www.nptel.iitm.ac.in/courses/Webcourse-contents/IITROORKEE/strength%20of%20materials/homepage.htm

http://nptel.ac.in/courses/Webcourse-contents/IITDelhi/Mechanics%20Of%20Solids/index.htm

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/civil-and-environmental-engineering/1-050engineering-mechanics-i-fall-2007/lecture-notes/

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/civil-and-environmental-engineering/1-050-solidmechanics-fall-2004/lecture-notes/

http://nptel.ac.in/courses/105105108/

http://deploy.virtual-labs.ac.in/labs/eerc01/index.php

http://etidweb.tamu.edu/ftp/ENTC376/Lab%20Manual/Lab_Manual_ENTC376_F
all08.pdf

http://www.csupomona.edu/~cmstover/files/220L/220L%20Manual.pdf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnSoBvwbXN0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ga6mCHc7JE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGUCvI9jH_U