COURSE UNIT TITLE

: STRENGTH OF MATERIALS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MAK 2029 STRENGTH OF MATERIALS COMPULSORY 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Mechanical Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR CESIM ATAŞ

Offered to

Textile Engineering

Course Objective

The main objective of this course is to develop in students the ability to analyze a given mechanics problem in a simple and logical manner and to apply its solution a few fundamental and well-understood principles.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Ability to compare internal and external force concepts.
2   Ability to explain stress and strain relationships.
3   Ability to calculate stresses in axial loading, bending, torsion and shear.
4   Ability to use transformation of stress relationships.
5   Ability to discuss stresses resulting from general loading.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction, internal forces and stresses, normal stress, shearing stress and bearing stress.
2 Stress on an oblique plane, stress components, ultimate stress and factor of safety.
3 Normal stress and strain under axial loading, normal stress-strain diagram, Hooke's law.
4 Statically indeterminate problems, Method of superposition, thermal stresses.
5 1st Mid-term exam.
6 Torsion of shafts and shearing stresses.
7 Angle of twist in the elastic range, statically indeterminate shafts
8 Shear and bending moment diagrams.
9 Bending of beams and normal stresses.
10 Shear on the horizontal face of a beam element, determination of the shear flow and shearing stress.
11 2nd Mid-term exam.
12 Transformation of plane stress, principal stresses and maximum shearing stress.
13 Transformation of plane stress, Mohr's circle for plane stress.
14 Stresses under combining loadings.

Recomended or Required Reading

Mechanics of Materials, F. P. Beer, E. R. Johnston, J.T. Dewolf, D. F. Mazurek (McGraw- Hill)

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE1 MIDTERM EXAM 1
2 MTE2 MIDTERM EXAM 2
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE1 * 0.25 + MTE2 * 0.25 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE1 * 0.25 + MTE2 * 0.25 + RST * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof. Dr. Cesim ATAŞ
Tel :+90 232 3019214
0544 974 36 35
e-mail : cesim.atas@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 2 24
Preparation for midterm exam 2 20 40
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 2 3 6
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 124

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.153
LO.253
LO.353
LO.453
LO.553