STATICS
3 Tutorials covering :-
Direct stress and strain.
Shear stress and strain.
Moments and forces.
Equilibrium of moments and forces.
Beam Reactions.
Pin joints.
Lattice frames.
LEVEL 1
5 TUTORIALS COVERING :-
Stress due to bending.
The 3 part bending equation.
Combined bending and direct stress.
Bending moments
Shear force.
Slope and deflection.
Macaulay's method.
Relationship between bending moment and shear stress.
Complementary shear stress.
Shear stress and shear flow in various sections.
Shear stress in thin walled sections.
Shear centre.
2 Tutorials covering :-
Shear stress, strain and angle of twist.
3 part torsion equation
Torque in shafts.
Torsion of non-circular sections.
Torsion of thin hollow sections.
Torsion of thin strips.
3 Tutorials covering :-
Struts.
Euler's formulae.
Intermediate members.
Rankine - Gordon formula.
Columns.
Offset loads.
5 Tutorials covering :-
Thin shells - cylinders and spheres
Thick cylinders, Lames equations.
Three dimensional stress strain.
Mohr's circle of stress and strain.
Strain gauge rosettes.
Combined bending, torsion and axial loads.
Theories of failure in complex stress conditions.
Strain energy due to:
Direct Stress
Pure Shear
Torsion
Bending
Deflection of beams, rectangular and circular structures.
Catigliano's theorem for deflection.