STEM / applied
Strength of materials · Undergraduate · Engineering
Topics
Columns, energy methods, and design
- Euler buckling and effective length factors
- Intermediate column formulas (Johnson, secant)
- Strain energy and Castigliano's theorem (intro)
- Impact loading and dynamic amplification
- Fatigue strength and endurance limit modifications
- Selection of structural shapes from tables
- Welded and bolted connection design awareness
- Experimental strain measurement in lab
- FEA post-processing of stress results
- Design project: loaded bracket or shaft analysis
Industry practice
- Reading AISC steel manual excerpts for design
- ASME pressure vessel code awareness (intro)
- Quality control: hardness and NDT for welds
- Material test reports and cert traceability
- Failure investigation case studies
- Machine element integration with strength checks
- Software tools for section property lookup
- Sustainability: lightweighting trade-offs
- FE strength of materials exam drills
- Professional ethics in structural sign-off
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