AE 209 Solid Mechanics
Introduction:
Solid Mechanics would be the first introductory course to the structural aspect of aerospace engineering and is a precursor to aerospace structural mechanics. The course does not teach any tools specific to aerospace engineering but lays a foundation to later courses.
Credits:
8(3L-0T-1P-8C)
Prerequisites:
None
Course Contents:
The course develops from the concepts of stress and strain you learned for your JEE and a little brush up would be helpful . The course is divided into 2 halves with first half entailing
- Introduction to elasticity ,stress and strain,
- Plane stress and strain,
- Compatibility and equilibrium equations and development of stress function,
- Problems in polar coordinates and of curved bars
- Various yield theories and criterion,
- Mechanical Properties,
Second Half entailing
- Elementary Beam Theory and Torsion theory
- Shear and Bending Moments Diagrams
- Differential equations of bending
- Deflection and stress analysis of rods, beams and circular shafts
- Structural Instability
- Buckling of Columns
Motivation:
Solid Mechanics is a pre requisite for all the courses related to structural mechanics of aerospace vehicles like
- Introduction to Aero-elasticity
- Smart Materials and Structures
- Vibrations
- Structural Mechanics
Textbooks:
Gere, J. M., Mechanics of Materials, Thomson, 6th ed. 2007.
Crandall, S.H., Dahl, N.C. and Lardner, T.J. An Introduction to the Mechanics of Materials, McGraw-Hill, International Edition, 1978.
Timoshenko, S.P. and Goodier, J.N. Theory of Elasticity, McGraw-Hill, International Edition, 1970.