Advanced Strength of Materials

MAE 156A “Advanced Strength of Materials” (Prof.

Mal, A.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, two hours; outside study, six hours.

Requisites: courses 82, 101.

Not open to students with credit for course 166A.

Concepts of stress, strain, and material behavior.

Stresses in loaded beams with symmetric and asymmetric cross sections.

Torsion of cylinders and thin-walled structures, shear flow.

Stresses in pressure vessels, pressfit and shrink-fit problems, rotating shafts.

Curved beams.

Contact stresses.

Strength and failure, plastic deformation, fatigue, elastic instability.