Strength of Materials for Civil Engineers. 3 credits, 4 contact hours

Catalog description

Prerequisites: MECH 235 with a grade of C or better and MATH 112 , PHYS111/ PHYS 111A . Restrictions: Only Civil Engineering students. A working knowledge of statics with emphasis on force equilibrium and free body diagrams. Provides an understanding of the kinds of stress and deformation and how to determine them in a wide range of simple, practical structural problems, and an understanding of the mechanical behavior of materials under various load conditions. Lab should be taken concurrently.