Strength of Materials

Subject Code: AE 304

Credits: 4
Duration: 12 Weeks No. of
hours/week: 4
Internal Marks: 50
External Marks: 50

1. Simple stresses and strains: Introduction, Concept of Stress and strain, Types of Stresses and
Strains, Hookes law, Principle of superposition, Bars of varying cross section, Composite bars,
Elastic constants

Stress-strain curves: Behavior of common materials in simple tension and compression test,
Concept of factor of safety and permissible stress, Concept of Strain Energy
(09 hours)
2. Compound stresses: Stress components on oblique planes, General two dimensional stress
system: principal stresses and planes, maximum shear stress and planes Analytical & Mohrs
circle methods.
(06
hours)
3. Shear Force and Bending Moment in Beams: Types of supports, beams & loads - relation
between load, shear force and bending moment, Shear force and Bending moment diagrams for
statically determinate beams with various load combinations

(08 hours)
4. Deflection of Beams: Curvature of bending beam, Relation between slope, deflection and radius
of curvature, Double integration method for slope and deflection, General cases
(06 hours)
5. Stresses in beams: Theory of simple bending, Section modulus, Bending stress distribution for
various cross-sections, Shear stresses in beams and shear stress distribution in cross-sections
symmetrical about Y-Y axis.

(07 hours)
6. Torsion of Shafts: Torsion of solid and hollow circular shafts shear, power transmission capacity,
Torsion Equation, Torsional Rigidity
(06 hours)
7. Columns and struts: Short and long columns, Eulers formula for long columns with various
end conditions, effective length of column, slenderness ratio, limitations of Eulers theory,
Rankines formula
(06
hours)

Textbooks:
1. R.S. Khurmi, Strength of Materials, S. Chand Publications, 2006, ISBN : 9788121928229
2. S.S. Bhavikatti, Strength of Materials, 3rd edition, Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., ISBN: 978-
8125927914
3. R. K. Bansal, A textbook of strength of materials, Laxmi Publications Pvt. Ltd., revised 4th
edition, New Delhi.
4. James M. Gere & Barry J G, Mechanics of Materials, Cengage Learning, 8th Edition,
Brooks\Cole, 2009.
References:
1. Sadhu Singh, Strength of Materials, Khanna Publishers, 1980.
2. Ryder G.H., Strength of Materials, Macmillan India.
3. B C Punmia, Ashok Kumar Jain, & Arun Kumar Jain, Mechanics of Material, Laxmi Publication