BCE-14 STRUCTURAL MECHANICS - I

Course category : Department Core (DC)

Pre-requisites : Mechanics of structures
Contact hours/week : Lecture : 3, Tutorial : 1 , Practical: 2
Number of Credits : 5
Course Assessment : Continuous assessment through tutorials, assignments, quizzes and Three Minor
methods tests and One Major Theory & Practical Examination
Course Outcomes : The students are expected to be able to demonstrate the following knowledge, skills
and attitudes after completing this course
1. Students learn different methods for how calculate the stress strain.
2. Students learn to establish the relation b/w different modulus of elasticity of different materials.
3. Students learn how to apply hooke's law, and how draw the Mohr’s circle for calculating the stress.
4. Students learn different types of load, beams, structures, reactions, types of structures.
5. Students understand how to calculate the reactions, calculation of bending moment and shear force, and how to
draw the bending moment and shear force diagram for different type of structures.
6. Students learn about the columns and how buckling is occurred in columns due to loading.
7. Students learn how analyzes the different type of structures for different methods.
8. Students learn the how failure is occurred in the structures.
Topics Covered
UNIT-I
Simple Stress and Strain, Poisson’s ratio, Different Moduli of elasticity and their relations. Compound stresses and 9
strains: Introduction: normal stress and strain, shear stress and strain, stresses on inclined plane, strain energy,
impact loads and stresses, state of plane stress, principal stress and strain, maximum shear stress, Mohr‟s stress
circle three-dimensional state of stress & strain, equilibrium equation, generalized Hook‟s law, theories of failure,
composite bars, Temperature stresses
UNIT-II
Bending Moment, Shear Force Diagram for beams and determinate structural members. 9
Bending Stresses: Derivation of formula, bending stress distribution across various beam sections like rectangular,
circular, triangular, I, T angle sections, composite beam
Shear Stresses: Derivation of formula, Shear stress distribution across various beam sections like rectangular,
circular, triangular, I, T angle sections, composite beam.
UNIT-III
Deflection of beam: Equation of elastic curve, cantilever and simply supported beam, Macaulay‟s method, Moment 9
Area method, Unit Load Method. Strain Energy Methods and Strain Energy theorems.
Torsion- Derivation of torsion equation and its assumptions. Applications of the equation of 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.
UNIT-IV
Combined bending and direct stress, middle third and quarter fourth rules. Columns and struts: Buckling and 9
Stability, slenderness ratio, Euler‟s Crippling Load, Buckling Loads for columns with various end conditions.
Empirical formulae for evaluation of Buckling Load.
Curved Beams: Bending of beams with initial curvature. Unsymmetrical Bending. Shear Centre
 EXPERIMENTS
Following experiments to be carried out:
1. Flexural Rigidity of Beam
2. Unsymmetrical Bending
3. Buckling Load of Struts
4. Deflection of curved members
5. Verification of Maxwell Betti’s Reciprocal theorems
Textbooks
1. Hibbeler, R. C. Mechanics of Materials. 6th ed. East Rutherford, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004
2. Timoshenko, S. and Young, D. H., “Elements of Strength of Materials”, DVNC, New York, USA.
3. Jain, O.P. and Jain, B.K., “Theory & Analysis of Structures. Vol. I & II Nem Chand.
4. James M. Gere, Barry J. Goodno, “Mechanics of Materials” Cengage Learning.
Reference books
1. Coates, R.C., Coutie, M.G. & Kong, F.K., “Structural Analysis”, English Language BookSociety&
Coates,
Nelson, 1980
2. Ghali, A. & Neville, M., “Structural Analysis”, Chapman & Hall Publications, 1974. 25
3. Jain, A.K. “Advanced Structural Analysis”, Nem Chand &Bors, Roorkee, India, 1996.
4. Kazmi, S. M. A., “Solid Mechanics” TMH, Delhi, India.