Advanced Strength Analysis

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This course is designed to give students an advanced understanding of mechanics of materials and their usage in design of mechanical structures and systems. Two-dimensional and three dimensional stress and strain, stress and strain relations, principal stresses; failure theories, factors of safety, stress concentration; beam theory, plate theory, column theory, thin-walled pressure vessels; energy methods, contact stresses, thermal strains, impact effects, fatigue and fracture, elastic stability. This course includes a design project.