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IK Gujral Punjab Technical University Jalandhar, Punjab, INDIA Study Scheme & Syllabus of B. Tech Mechanical Engineering Batch 2018 Onwards

The document outlines the course outcomes, detailed contents, and suggested readings for a Strength of Materials course. It includes topics like stress and strain, bending moment and shear force diagrams, bending stresses in beams, torsion, columns and struts, and slope and deflection. It also lists the practical experiments to be performed in the Strength of Materials lab.

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IK Gujral Punjab Technical University Jalandhar, Punjab, INDIA Study Scheme & Syllabus of B. Tech Mechanical Engineering Batch 2018 Onwards

The document outlines the course outcomes, detailed contents, and suggested readings for a Strength of Materials course. It includes topics like stress and strain, bending moment and shear force diagrams, bending stresses in beams, torsion, columns and struts, and slope and deflection. It also lists the practical experiments to be performed in the Strength of Materials lab.

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IK Gujral Punjab Technical University Jalandhar, Punjab, INDIA

Study Scheme & Syllabus of B. Tech Mechanical Engineering Batch 2018 onwards
BTME304-18 STRENGTH OF MATERIALS-I

Course Outcomes:
At the end of the course, the student will be able to
1. Understand the concepts of stress and strain at a point, in the members subjected to
axial, bending, torsional loads and temperature changes.
2. Determine principal stresses, maximum shearing stress and their angles, and the
stresses acting on any arbitrary plane within a structural element.
3. Find bending moment and shear force over the span of various beams subjected to
different kinds of loads.
4. Calculate load carrying capacity of columns and struts and their buckling strength.
5. Evaluate the slope and deflection of beams subjected to loads.

Detailed Contents:
1. Simple, Compound Stresses and Strains: Stress and Strain and their types, Hook’s law,
longitudinal and lateral strain, Poisson’s ratio, stress-strain diagram for ductile and brittle
materials, extension of a bar due to without and with self weight, bar of uniform strength, stress
in a bar, elastic constants and their significance, relation between elastic constants, Young’s
modulus of elasticity, modulus of rigidity and bulk modulus. Temperature stress and strain
calculation due to axial load and variation of temperature in single and compound bars. Two-
dimensional stress system, stress at a point on a plane, principal stresses and principal planes,
Mohr’s circle of stress. Generalized Hook's law, principal stresses related to principal strains.
08 Hrs

2. Bending Moment (B.M) and Shear Force (S.F) Diagrams: S.F and B.M definitions;
relation between load, shear force and bending moment; B.M and S.F diagrams for cantilevers,
simply supported beams with or without overhangs, and calculation of maximum
B.M and S.F and the point of contra flexure under different loads: Concentrated loads,
Uniformity distributed loads over the whole span or part of span, Combination of concentrated
and uniformly distributed load, Uniformly varying loads and Application of moments. 06 Hrs

3. Bending Stresses in Beams: Assumptions in the simple bending theory; derivation of


formula and its application to beams of rectangular, circular and channel, I and T- sections.
Combined direct and bending stresses in afore-mentioned sections, composite / flitched beams.
05 Hrs

4. Torsion: Derivation of torsion equation and its assumptions and its application to the hollow
and solid circular shafts. Torsional rigidity, combined torsion and bending of circular shafts;
principal stress and maximum shear stresses under combined loading of bending and torsion.
05 Hrs
IK Gujral Punjab Technical University Jalandhar, Punjab, INDIA
Study Scheme & Syllabus of B. Tech Mechanical Engineering Batch 2018 onwards
5. Columns and struts: Introduction, failure of columns, Euler’s formula, Rankine-Gordon’s
formula, Johnson’s empirical formula for axially loaded columns and their applications.
05 Hrs

6. Slope and deflection: Relationship between moment, slope and deflection; method of
integration, Macaulay’s method, moment area method and use of these methods to calculate
slope and deflection for: Cantilevers, Simply supported beams with or without overhang, Under
concentrated loads, uniformly distributed loads or combination of concentrated &uniformly
distributed loads. 07 Hrs

Suggested Readings/Books:
1. Timoshenko and Gere, “Mechanics of Materials”, CBS Publishers and Distributors,
New Delhi.
2. Pytel&Kiusalaas, “Mechanics of Materials”, Cengage Learning, New Delhi.
3. S. S. Rattan, “Strength of Materials”, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi.
4. R. K. Bansal, “A Text Book of Strength of Materials”, Laxmi Publications, New Delhi.
5. D. K. Singh, “Strength of Materials”, Ane Books Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.
6. Sadhu Singh, Strength of Materials, Khanna Publishers, Delhi.
IK Gujral Punjab Technical University Jalandhar, Punjab, INDIA
Study Scheme & Syllabus of B. Tech Mechanical Engineering Batch 2018 onwards
BTME306-18 Strength of Material Lab

Course Outcomes:
After studying this course, students shall be able to:
1. Measure the various mechanical properties such as tensile and compressive strength,
impact strength, torsion strength and fatigue strength and hardness of brittle and ductile
materials.
2. Calculate load carrying capacity of long columns and their buckling strength.

List of Practical
1 To perform tensile and compression test in ductile and brittle materials and to
draw stress-strain curve and to determine various mechanical properties.
2 To perform compression test on Cast Iron
3 To perform any hardness tests (Any one from Rockwell, Brinell &Vicker’s test).
4 To perform impact test to determine impact strength.
5 To perform torsion test and to determine various mechanical properties.
6 To perform Fatigue test on circular test piece.
7 To perform bending test on beam and to determine the Young's modulus and
modulus of rupture.
8 Determination of Bucking loads of long columns with different end conditions.
9 To evaluate the stiffness and modulus of rigidity of helical coil spring.

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