Course 1.

Strength of Materials (Web Course)

Prof. Ashok Gupta
Department of Civil Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110 016
Email : ashokg@civil.iitd.ernet.in
Telephone : (91-11) 2659 1194 (Office)
(91-11) 2659 1993, 2685 9238 (Residence)

I. Analysis of stresses
Body forces, Surface forces, Internal Force, Stress at a point, Components of stress in
Rectangular coordinates, Stress tensor, Principal stresses, Transformation, Equations, Stress
invariants, Plane stress, Mohrs circle for plane stress, Octahedral stresses, Differential equations
of equilibrium, Components of stresses in cylindrical and Polar coordinates,
II. Analysis of Strain
Deformable bodies, Concepts of normal strain and shear strain, Strain components at a point,
Transformation equations, Principal strains, Mohrs circle of strains, Compatibility conditions,
Displacement equation of equililibirum, Plane strain.
III. Stress-Strain relations
Uniaxial tensile test, Elasticity, Anelasticity , Work-hardening, anisotropy, homogeneity and
continuity, generalized Hookes law, Lames constants, Modulus of rigidity, Bulk modulus, relation
between the elastic constants, Principle of superposition, Uniqueness theorem, Thermal effects.
IV. Uniaxial Loading
Bars of variable cross-section, Statically indeterminate problems in a tension and compression,
Thin cylindrical and spherical vessels.
V. Torsion
Geometry of deformation of a twisted circular shaft, Stress and deformation in twisted circular
solid and hollow shafts, Strain energy due to torsion , Power transmitted by circular shafts.
VI. Bending of Beams
Bending moment and shear force diagrams, Stresses due to bending, bending equation, shear
stresses in symmetrical elastic beams transmitting both shear and bending moment.

VII. Deflection due to bending

The moment curvature relation, Macaulays and moment-area method, Castiglianos theorem.
VIII. Combined Stresses
Beam subjected to bending and shear, shaft subjected to bending and torsion, short columns.
IX. Stability of Columns
Stable and unstable equilibrium, Eulers formula for long columns, Rankines formula.