MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

COURSE OUTLINE – 2018-2019 FALL SEMESTER

CE 224 – MECHANICS OF MATERIALS (3 - 2) 4

INSTRUCTORS:
Kağan TUNCAY - Room K2-304 tuncay@metu.edu.tr (Section 1)
Barış BİNİCİ Room K2-312 binici@metu.edu.tr (Sections 2, 4)
Erdem CANBAY - Room K2-310 ecanbay@metu.edu.tr (Section 3)

Assistants:

Halil Fırat Özel (Course) K2-216, Yavuz Semerdöken (Labs) K2-217

Web page for CE224 is: http://courses.ce.metu.edu.tr/ce224/

Textbook: -Ferdinand P. Beer, E. Russell Johnston, John T. Wolf, Mechanics of Materials,

4th or 5th Edition in SI Units, Mc Graw Hill Book Company
- Ferdinand P. Beer, E. Russell Johnston Jr., John T. DeWolf, David F. Mazurek,
Mechanics of Materials, 7th Edition in SI Units, Mc Graw Hill Book Company
Reference Books: -Luş, Ersoy, Canbay, Wasti Çubukların Mukavemeti, Boğaziçi Üniv. Yayınevi.

Entire course will follow the Textbook. Content of the course and the reading assignments given below, refer to
Chapters and Sections in the Textbook. Teaching approach, order and sign conventions used will be those of the
Textbook. All solved examples in the Textbook, related to the sections included in the course, are to be considered as
also solved on the board in the classroom.

Term Tests: Three closed book term tests composed of three questions will be given. Each test will cover the
material studied from the beginning of the course to that date.

Labs: There will be 2-hour-duration labs during the semester in every two weeks. For students who are repeating this
course please check the web site and attend your missing labs. For every laboratory session, each student is expected
to attend the lab, conduct the test, and fill out the necessary readings and calculations to the laboratory booklet. After
each laboratory session the booklets will be collected and graded individually. The grades will be given on an
“ACCEPTABLE” and “UNACCEPTABLE” basis. Best five grades out of six will be included in the final grade;
therefore, there will be no make-up for the missed labs.

Problems: Students are expected to master all problems given at the end of each chapter of the textbook.

Composition of the Final Mark: Labs (5%); Attendance (5%), 3 Term Tests (60%), Final Examination (30 %).
Students, who could not collect 25 points out of 100 prior to the final exam, are not allowed to take the final exam.

Attendance: Attendance will be checked randomly five times during the semester. Each attendance will count as 1%
of the course grade.

COURSE CONTENT (from Mechanics of Materials, 4th or 5th Edition)

Chapter TOPIC Sections Exams
1 Introduction – Concept of Stress 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,13
2 Stress and Strain – Axial Loading 1,2,3,4,5,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15
3 Torsion 1,2,3,4,5,6,13 Exam 1
4 Pure Bending 1,2,3,4,6,12,14
Shearing Stresses in Beams and Thin-
6 1,2,3,4,6,7 Exam 2
Walled Members
7 Transformations of Stress and Strain 1,2,3,4,9
8 Principal Stresses under a Given Loading 4
9 Deflection of Beams 1,2,3,4,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14 Exam 3
10 Columns 1,2,3,4