UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA

COURSE OUTLINE
STRENGTH OF MATERIALS (KJM244)

Course Strength of Materials

Code KJM244
Programme Diploma in Mechanical Engineering
Lecturer PM Dr Abd Halim b Zulkifli
Room/Tel Wing B 3.09
E-mail abdulhalim540@ppinang.uitm.edu.my
Credit hours 3.0 (Lecture 3 hours/week, tutorial 1hr/week)
Course Outcome Upon the completion of the course, students will be able to:
- Explain the basic concepts and fundamental
principles in solid mechanics
- Apply this knowledge to the analysis of simple
mechanical member
- Explain the values played by load and flaw in
promoting failure

Course Description This course covers stresses and strains of deformable bodies
in tension, compression, bending and torsion. Topics covered
include axial stresses and strains, thermal stress, simple
statically determinate and indeterminate systems, torsional
stresses, power transmission in shafts, bending stresses in
beams, transformation of plane stresses, and elastic buckling
in columns.
Semester 3
Text Book FP Beer, E R Johnston, J T DeWolf, Mechanics of Materials,
5th edition McGraw Hill Publication
Syllabus Content Duratio Ref
n
1.0 General Concept of Stress and Strain 6 hrs Chap 1,2
1.1 Normal stress and strain
1.2 Shear stress and strain
1.3 Materials behavior, Hooke’s Law, Elastic Constants,
Poisson’s Ratio
2.0 Axial Load 9 hrs Chap 2
2.1 Elastic deformation of an Axially Loaded Members
2.2 Statically determinate and indeterminate Axially Loaded
members
2.3 Thermal Stress
3.0 Torsion of Solid and Hollow Circular Sections 6 hrs Chap 3
3.1 Torsional Deformation of a circular shaft
3.2 Torsion formula, Angle of Twist, Statically Indeterminate
Shafts
3.3 Power Transmission Shafts

Test 1
4.0 Bending in Straight Beams 9 hrs Chap 4,5,6
4.1 Shear Force and Bending Moment Diagrams
 4.2 The flexure formula – Bending Stresses
4.3 The shear formula – Shear Stresses
5.0 Two Dimensional Stress Systems (plane stress)(9 hours) 9 hrs Chap 7
5.1 Plane – Stress Transformation
5.2 General Equations of Plane-Stress Equations
5.3 Principal Stresses and Maximum in-Plane Shear Stress
5.4 Mohr’s Circle for Plane Stress
5.5 Stresses in thin walled pressure vessels

Test 2
6.0 Buckling of Column 3 hrs Chap 10
6.1 Critical Load and Euler’s Equation
6.2 Type of Columns and various type of column support
ASSIGNMENTS (20%), TEST 1 (10%) TEST 2 (10%) 40%
FINAL EXAMINATION 60%
TOTAL 100%