Mechanics of Solids

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UG Second Year
Sem-III (2022 Batch)
Civil-B

Dr. Vanama RAGHAVA KUMAR, M.Tech.(VNIT), Ph.D.(IITB)

Room C19, Assistant Professor
Department of Civil Engineering,
National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
Tamil Nadu, INDIA – 620015
vanama@nitt.edu
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Mechanics of Solids– About the course
• FOUR Credit Course
• Min. Weekly FOUR lectures

• Class room- ORION G3 for CIVIL-B

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Attendance Policy

• At least 75% attendance in each course is mandatory.

• A maximum of 10% shall be allowed under On Duty (OD)
category.
• Students with less than 65% of attendance shall be
prevented from writing the final assessment and shall
be awarded 'V' grade.

Students with “F” or “X” grade and satisfactory attendance in core courses are eligible for Supplementary Examination

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Assessment Criteria
• Cycle Tests (CT)
• First Assessment – 20%
• Second Assessment– 20%
• Third Assessment - 0%
• Assignments
• Assignments 1, 2….– 20%
• Compensation Assessment *
• CPA* – 20%
• Final Assessment
• End Sem – 40%

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Mechanics of Solids– About the course
Course Learning Objectives (CLO)

1. To learn about the concept of stress, strain and deformation of solids

2. To know the concepts of virtual work, strain energy and principal stress
3. To learn the bending moment, shear force and the corresponding stress distribution for different types of beams
4. To study the different methods of finding deflection of beams and trusses and understand the torsion behaviour
of solid and hollow circular shafts
5. To analyse columns of varying end support conditions by Euler Theory and Rankine’s formula.

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Mechanics of Solids– About the course
Course Content (Syllabus)

Simple, compound and thermal stresses - composite bars – strain energy and resilience - Principal stress and
principal planes Mohr’s circles
Shear force and bending moment for different determinate beams – Euler Bernoulli beam theory - Stress
distribution at a cross section due to Bending Moment and Shear
Deflection of beams using double integration and semi graphical methods such as conjugate beam and moment
area method- Principle of virtual displacement and virtual forces - Castigliano's first theorem - Maxwell's reciprocal
theorem.
Strain energy and dummy unit load approaches to deflection of trusses - Theory of torsion - Torsion of circular and
hollow circular shafts and shear stresses due to torsion
Theory of columns: Axial load- Euler's theory-Rankines formula, combined bending and axial load

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Mechanics of Solids– About the course
Course Outcome (CO)
On completion of the course, the students will be able to:
1. determine the strength parameters of the materials and solve principal stress and principal plane problems
2. determine shear force, bending moment, bending and shear stress distribution
3. determine deflection of a beam for various loading conditions and also trusses
4. analyze members subjected to torsion
5. visualize the behavior of column for combined bending and axial loading

Reference Books/Material:
• Hibbeler, R.C., Mechanics of Materials, Pearson, 2016
• Ramamrutham, S., Strength of Materials, Dhanpat Rai Publishing Co Pvt Ltd., 2011
• Timoshenko, S.P. and Gere, J.M. Mechanics of Materials, Tata McGraw Hill, 1992
• Rajput R.K., Strength of Materials, S. Chand & Co., Ltd., 1996.

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Introduction
• Strength of Materials

• Mechanics of Materials

• Mechanics of Solids

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Simple Stresses and Strains
Types of Loading and Support Conditions

Concentrated/Point Load Uniformly Distributed Load Uniformly Varying Load Concentrated Moment
(UDL) (UVL)

Pinned Support Roller Support Fixed Support

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Stress
• When a body is acted upon by some load or external force, it undergoes deformation (i.e., change in shape or
dimensions) which increases gradually.
• During deformation, the material of the body resists the tendency of the load to deform the body, and when the
load influence is taken over by the internal resistance of the material of the body, it becomes stable.
• The internal resistance offered by the material against the deformation is called ‘Stress’.

Unit Stress
• Unit stress represents the resistance developed by a unit area of cross-section, and is expressed in kN/m2 or MN/m2
or N/mm2. For the remainder of this text, the word stress will be used to signify unit stress.

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Simple Stress
• Simple stress is often called direct stress because it develops under direct loading conditions.
• That is, simple tension and simple compression occur when the applied force, called load, is in line with the axis of
the member (axial loading) (Figs. 1.1 and 1.2)

• Simple shear occurs, when equal, parallel, and opposite forces tend to cause a surface to slide relative to the
adjacent surface (Fig. 1.3).

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Simple Stress
• When any type of simple stress σ(sigma) develops, we can calculate the magnitude of the stress by, P(=R)/A
• In cases of either simple tension or simple compression, the areas which resist the load are perpendicular to the
direction of forces. When a member is subjected to simple shear, the resisting area is parallel to the direction of the
force.

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Simple Stress
• In certain loading situations, the stresses that develop are not simple stresses. For example, the member is subjected
to a load which is perpendicular to the axis of the member (transverse loading).

• This will cause the member to bend, resulting in deformation of the material and stresses being developed internally
to resist the deformation.
• All three types of stresses—tension, compression and shear—will develop, but they will not be simple stresses, since
they were not caused by direct loading.

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IS Code
IS 9609

https://standardsbis.bsbedge.com/

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