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The EM211 course on Strength of Materials is essential for chemical engineers, focusing on the analysis of structural members under various loads. It covers fundamental concepts such as stress, strain, and material behavior, aiming to equip students with the skills to calculate stresses and design components safely. The course includes topics like axial loading, torsion, bending, and the properties of engineering materials, supported by recommended readings for further study.

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EM211 Course Outline

The EM211 course on Strength of Materials is essential for chemical engineers, focusing on the analysis of structural members under various loads. It covers fundamental concepts such as stress, strain, and material behavior, aiming to equip students with the skills to calculate stresses and design components safely. The course includes topics like axial loading, torsion, bending, and the properties of engineering materials, supported by recommended readings for further study.

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EM211 – STRENGTH OF MATERIALS

Background
Strength of materials is a basic engineering course important for chemical engineers to
understand and analyze the strength and physical performance of man-made and
natural structural members. The course covers fundamental concepts such as stresses
and strains, deformations and displacements, elasticity and inelasticity, strain energy and
load-carrying capacity.
Aim
The aim of the course is to provide students with basic knowledge and skills in application
and analysis of various types of structural members subjected to axial, torsion, bending,
transverse, shear and combined loading.
Learning outcomes
On completion of this course students will be able to:
• Understand the fundamental concepts of mechanics of deformable solids,
geometry of deformation, and material constitutive behavior, and apply static
equilibrium conditions to solve strength of material problems.
• Understand the concepts of stress and strain, and apply Engineering and True
stress-strain relationships for analysis of elastic/plastic deformation of statically
loaded homogenous, isotropic materials.
• Calculate the stresses and strains in axially, torsional, flexural-loaded members.
• Relate allowable stress, material strength and safety factor in component
design.
• Determine the allowable strength and deformation of axial, torsional and flexural
loaded systems.
• Discuss the basic mechanical principles underlying approaches for analysis of
various types of structural members subjected to axial load, torsion, bending,
and transverse shear.
• Draw shear and bending moment diagrams, and write beam equilibrium
equations.

Course content
Introduction: Review of statics; load/forces (external and internal), types of loading
(static, dynamic, impact); moments, equilibrium of forces; concept of stress: stress types;
normal tension/compression, shear, bending, torsion.
Normal stress and strain: Tension and compression; Hooke’s law (modulus of elasticity -
E); engineering and true strain-strain diagrams; elastic versus plastic behavior of
structures; yield, ultimate and fracture strengths; ductile versus brittle material behavior;
Poisson’s ratio; deformation of statically determinate and indeterminate members under
axial loading (single and compound bars); thermal stress; multi-axial loading (generalized
Hooke’s law, dilation and bulk modulus); Factor of safety and material selection.
Engineering materials: Appreciation of design properties of engineering materials such
as metals (e.g., iron, steels, copper) and alloys (e.g., brass, bronze, monel); polymers (e.g.,
polyethylene, polystyrene); ceramics and glasses (e.g., silicon carbide, cement);
composites (e.g., fiberglass, filled polymers) and natural materials (e.g., wood, leather).
Shear stress and strain: Measuring shear strain; modulus of rigidity (G); axial loading
(complementary shear, relationship between E and G); Shear stress application in
punching.
Moments of inertia in Plain figures: Concept of centroid: Simple shapes, centroid of
complex shapes, concept of moment of inertia of an area, moment of inertia of
composite shapes whose parts have the same centroidal axis, Moment of inertia for
composite shapes: General case—use of the parallel axis theorem, Mathematical
definition of moment of inertia, composite sections made from commercially available
shapes, moment of inertia for shapes with all rectangular parts, radius of gyration.
Torsion in round shafts, Shear stress, Angle of twist: Design for direct shear stress, torsional
shear stress in members with circular cross sections, development of the torsional shear
stress formula, polar moment of inertia for solid circular bars, torsional shear stress and
polar moment of inertia for hollow circular bars, design of circular members under torsion,
power transmission.
Pure bending: Definition; beams; types; concentrated and uniform loading; stress and
strain; flexure formula; beam deflection.
Analysis and design of beams for bending: shear force diagrams; bending moment
diagrams.
Recommended and prescribed readings
1. Robert Mott, (2018), Applied strength of materials, 6th edition, CRC Press.
2. Barry Dupen, (2019). Applied Strength of materials for engineering technology,
Published by National Centre of Educational Statistics, U.S. Department of
Education.
3. Beer, F.P., Johnston, E.R., DeWolf, J.T. and Mazurek, D.F., 2015. Mechanics of
Materials. 7th_Edition. New York. MeGraw-Hill Education Ltd.
4. G. H. Ryder, (1989) Strength of Materials 3rd Edition, Macmillan Education Ltd, Hong
Kong
5. S. Timoshenko, (1940). Strength of Materials Elementary Theory and Problems, 2nd
Edition.
James M. Gere, (2001), Mechanics of materials, 5th edition, Brooks/Cole Pacific
Grove USA

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