BAHIR DAR UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
STRENGTH OF MATERIALS (CEng 102)
Course outline

Target Group: 2nd year Ext. Civil Engineering Degree Students

Course Title: - strength Materials Course code: - CEng 102
Credit Hour: - 4hrs. (4hrs. /week-lecture & 3hrs / week-tutorial)
Academic Year: -2007/ 2008

Prerequisites: Applied Mathematics-I

Engineering Mechanics (CEng-101)
Course Contents
1. Mechanical properties of materials
2. Tension and Compression
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Normal Stress and Strain
2.3 Factor of Safety
3. Torsion
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Torsion of circular shafts
3.3 Non-uniform torsion
4. Shear force and bending moment in beams
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Shear force and Bending moment
4.3 Shear force and bending moment diagrams
5. Flexural and shearing stresses in beams
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Normal stress in beams
5.3 Shear stress in beams

Mid Examination

6. Stress in members under axial load combined with bending

7. Joints & Connections
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Bolted Connections
7.3 Welded Connections
8. Deflection of beams
8.1 Direct integration method
8.2 Moment-area method
8.3 Conjugate beam method
9. Statically indeterminate members
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Statically indeterminate axial members
9.3 Statically indeterminate torsional members
9.4 Statically indeterminate flexural members
9.4.1 Introduction
9.4.2 Analysis of continuous beams by the three-moment equation
10. combined stresses
 Mohr’s circle
11. Introduction to Work Energy concepts and applications

Final Examination

Reference Books

1. Gere & Timoshenko, “Mechanics of Materials”. Third edition, PWS-

KKNT Publishing Company, Boston.
2. A.C. Ugural, “Mechanics of Materials”, Mc GRAW HILL, INC.
3. IGOR P.POPOV, “Engineering Mechanics of Solids”, PRENTICE HALL,
Englewood cliffs, New Jersey 07632
4. R.C. HIBBELER, “STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS”, Fourth Edition,
PRINTCE HALL, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 07458.