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- Catalog Description
- 214 Statics and Mechanics of Materials. I, II; 4 cr
(P-I). Principles of mechanics, force
systems, equilibrium, centroids and centers of gravity,
friction; stress and strain, applications to
axial loads, torsion and bending of beams, deflections
of beams, material properties, elastic
stability. P: Math 222.
- Course Prerequisite(s)
- Differential and integral calculus
- Vectors and analytic geometry
- Recommended: Physics 201 or equivalent; elementary background in statics
- Prerequisite knowledge and/or skills
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As with EMA 201 (Statics), students must bring strong analytical skills to EMA 214, including knowledge of analytic geometry and differential and integral calculus.
- Textbook(s) and/or other required material
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Required: Mechanics of Materials, 5th ed., W.F. Riley, L.D. Sturges and D.H. Morris, Wiley, 1999.
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Recommended: An Introduction to the Mechanics of Solids, 2nd ed., R.R. Archer, N.H. Cook, S.H. Crandall, N.C. Dahl, T.J. Lardner, F.A. McClintock, E. Rabinowicz, G.S. Reichenbach, McGraw-Hill, 1972.
- Course objectives
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Course Objective: It is the instructor's intention to...
provide students in engineering and science with a broad, but practical and useful overview of solid mechanics.
Course Outcomes: Students must be able to...
understand systems of forces and be able to draw free-body diagrams.
understand the concepts of tensor stress and strain.
analyze/understand simple solid mechanics problems.
appreciate the range of material response to stress, up to and including failure.
explain the roles played by stress concentrations and flaws in promoting failure.
- Topics covered
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Vector Analysis
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Systems of forces and equilibrium of a body
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Loading, displacements and elastic energy
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Internal and distributed loads
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Stress
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Stress transformations, Mohr's Circle
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Strain and strain transformations
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Indicial notation
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Stress-strain curves
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Constitutive relations for elasticity including thermal strains
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Complete equations of elasticity
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Strain energy in an elastic body
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Stress concentrations
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Ductile failure
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Residual stress
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Brittle failure
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Fatigue
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Introduction to special topics: fracture mechanics, contact mechanics, finite element analysis
- Class/laboratory schedule
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EMA 214 meets four times per week for conventional 50-minute lectures. In addition, there is a one-hour lab session every 2 weeks.
- Contribution of course to meeting the professional component
- This course contributes primarily to the students' knowledge of college-level mathematics and/or basic sciences and does provide experimental experience.
The following statement indicates which of the following considerations are included in this course: economic, environmental, ethical, political, societal, health and safety, manufacturability, sustainability.
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EMA 214 is a first course that combines elements of statics and mechanics of materials. (In some sense, it is a hybrid of EMA 201 and EMA 303.) Like these other introductory courses, the emphasis is on basic material and problem-solving, and there is little coverage of ABET's supplementary topics (economic, environmental, etc)
- Relationship of course to undergraduate degree program objectives and outcomes
- This course serves students in a variety of engineering majors. The information below describes how the course contributes to the college's educational objectives.
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EMA 214 provides education in a fundamental subject (statics and strength of materials) for students pursuing a career in Materials Science & Engineering.
- Assessment of student progress toward course objectives
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5 homework assignments
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1 writing assignment
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3 quizzes
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3 major exams, including a final exam
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laboratory reports and quizzes
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