MCHT 213 – Section 3

Strength of Materials
Section 3 – 7:00 – 8:15 pm Tue/Thur
Office (230 REDC): M & F: 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.,
W: 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.

Instructor: Bob Michael, P.E.

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 Today…
• Introduction
• Syllabus
• Homework
• Course Objectives
• Statics review
• Internal reactions
 SEE Syllabus – Key Points:
• Grade Distribution
• Grade Scale
• Attendance Policy
• Makeup Policy
• Academic Integrity
• Support Services – SEEK TUTORING –
REDC 240 – schedule on board
• COURSE OBJECTIVES
 Schedule – reading and HW assignments:
Key to Success??

Reading assignment for class

on 8/23
Homework problems to solve after
F = partial class on 8/23 due 1 week after
solutions!! assigned, or due on 8/30
Course Page
Title
Chapter & Name & Date
problem no. Sketch of
situation What you are
to find
Always include
UNITS
FBD’s as
necessary No more than TWO
problems per page
LATE HOMEWORK
NOT ACCEPTED Box or underline
Engineering answers
Calculation
Paper Homework
 Engineering Mechanics

Rigid Body Deformable Body Fluid

Mechanics Mechanics Mechanics

Strength of
Statics
Materials
MCHT 111
MCHT 213
Dynamics (also SoM Lab
MET 206 MCHT 214)
ALSO, Advanced SoM (320) and FEA courses
 Mechanics of Materials
• Study relationship between external
loads applied to a deformable body and
the intensity of internal forces acting
within the body.
• Computation of the deformation of
bodies due to external loading.
• Material behavior
 Course Outcomes 1
• Solve axially loaded members for stresses and
deflections in statically determinate or
indeterminate cases including thermal stresses.
• Solve torsionally loaded shafts for stresses and
deflections in statically determinate or
indeterminate cases.
• Solve beams under bending for stresses.
• Solve transversely loaded beams for internal shear
forces and bending moments. Develop shear and
moment diagrams.
 Course Outcomes 2
• Solve beam deflection problems using integration,
and superposition.
• Solve for the stresses in beams with combined
axial and transverse loads.
• Solve for stresses in general cases of combined
loading and check for yielding using simple yield
criteria.
• Solve for transformed stresses, principal stresses
and construct and interpret Mohr's circle for
stresses.
• Solve axially loaded slender beams for buckling
under a variety of boundary conditions.
 Begin Chapter 1:
Statics Review: External Loads
Small contact area;
treat as a point

FR is One body
resultant of acting on
w(s) = area another
under curve,
acts at
centroid

One body
Acting on acting on
narrow area another w/o
contact
 External Loads:
• External loads can be Reaction Loads
or Applied Loads!
• Must solve for all unknown external
loads (reaction loads) so that internal
loads can be solved for!
• Internal loads produce stress, strain,
deformation – SofM concepts!
Supports
&
Reactions
Coplanar force
systems
Surface forces at
supports or
points of contact
between bodies
are called
REACTIONS
Supports
&
Reactions

Translations and
Rotations
Forces and
Moments
Pin connections
allow rotation.
Reactions at pins
are forces and
NOT MOMENTS.

Degrees of
Freedom
 Static Equilibrium
• Vectors: F = 0 M = 0

• Coplanar force systems:

Fx = 0
Fy = 0
Mo = 0 Perpendicular
to the plane
containing the
• Draw a FBD to account for forces
ALL loads acting on the body.
Example: Find the vertical reactions at A and B
for the shaft shown.
 FBD
(800 N/m)(0.150 m) = 120 N
225 N

A B

Ay By

Comment on dashed line around the distributed load.

See Page 10, Procedure for Analysis for FBD hints.
 Equilibrium
Equations

+ M A  0  .400 m (B y )  120 N (.275 m)  225 N (.500 m)

 120 N (.275 m)  225 N (.500 m)
By 
 .400 m
B y  363.75 N 
+ Fy  0  Ay  120 N  363.75 N  225 N
A y  18.75 N
A y  18.75 N 
 STATICS: You need to be
able to…
• Draw free-body diagrams,
• Know support types and their corresponding
reactions,
• Write and solve equilibrium equations so that
unknown forces can be solved for,
• Solve for appropriate internal loads by taking
cuts of inspection,
• Determine the centroid of an area,
• Determine the moment of inertia about an
axis through the centroid of an area.
Internal Reactions
• Internal reactions are
necessary to hold body
together under loading.
• Method of sections -
make a cut through
body to find internal
reactions at the point of
the cut.
FBD After Cut

• Separate the two parts

and draw a FBD of
either side
• Use equations of
equilibrium to relate the
external loading to the
internal reactions.
Resultant Force and Moment
• Point O is taken at the
centroid of the section.
• If the member (body) is
long and slender, like a
rod or beam, the
section is generally
taken perpendicular to
the longitudinal axis.
• Section is called the
cross section.
Components of Resultant
• Components are
found
perpendicular &
parallel to the
section plane.

• Internal reactions
are used to
determine stresses.
Coplanar Force System
Start with internal system
of forces as shown below
to get proper signs for V,
N and M.

Different than V
Fig. 1-3(b)
Summary of Typical Strength of Material Problem:
1. Calculate unknown reaction forces first.
2. Calculate internal forces at point of interest by cutting
member if necessary.
3. Calculate area properties (inertia, centroid, area, etc.).
4. Calculate stress!!

Examples of 1 and 2 follow

 Statics: Example 1 - Pliers

Given: Typical
household pliers as
shown.
Find: Force applied to
wire and force in pin
that connects the two
parts of the pliers.

Do this for homework.

See solution Link Side: what is the shear

stress in pin and bending
stress in handle? SofM
Statics: Example 2 – Crane Structure

Given: Crane structure

as shown.
Find: Forces and
FBD’s for cables A-B
and A-E, boom DEF
and post AFC.

Do this for homework. Side: what is the normal stress

in cables (average normal
only) and normal stress in
See solution Link boom and post (combined
loading)? SofM
Statics: Example 3 – Truss Structure

Given: Truss structure

as shown.
Find: Forces in each
member: AB, BC, AD,
EF, BD, BE, CE, CF

Do this for homework.

Side: what is the normal stress
in each truss member (away
See solution Link from joints)? SofM
Example 4: The 500 kg engine is suspended from the boom crane as
shown. Determine resultant internal loadings acting on the cross
section of the boom at point E.