Syllabus Application
Mechanical Systems I
ME 301
Instructor(s) Information
Güllü Kızıltaş Şendur
- Email: gkiziltas@sabanciuniv.edu
Course Information
Catalog Course Description
Course Learning Outcomes:
| 1. | Describe the fundamentals for mechanics of materials, get familiar with stress, strain and deformation |
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| 2. | Calculate the loadings on components and drawing internal force/moment diagrams |
| 3. | Calculate part stresses under various (axial, bending, torsion, etc or combined loading) cases and making design choices |
| 4. | Calculate thermal stresses, deformations and safety of components |
| 5. | Calculate stresses in pressurized vessels and principal stresses |
| 6. | Design for static and dynamic failures |
| 7. | Calculate deformation and strains of beams |
Course Objective
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Related to This Course:
| Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure |
OBJECTIVES
This course introduces fundamental principles and methods of structural mechanics. Topics
covered include: stresses and strains in structural elements, states of stress (shear, bending,
torsion), statically indeterminate systems, displacements and deformations, deflections with
simple loadings, superposition techniques, thermal stresses, combined stresses, Mohr’s circle,
combined loadings, buckling, energy methods, elastic stability, and approximate methods.
At the end of the course student must demonstrate the ability to:
• apply the principles of mechanics of materials and fundamentals of strength of materials,
• apply the sources and relationship between strain and stress and calculate the effect of
various loading conditions
• apply computational techniques, such as Mohr’s circle, to solve mechanics problems
• conduct mechanical component design based on stress and deflection analysis
• calculate deflections of structural elements under basic loading.
• apply principles of design for static failure
• analyze a given solid mechanics problem in a simple and logical manner and use fundamental
concepts to find its solution
Course Materials
Resources:
McGraw-Hill Education, USA, July 2015. (textbook)
• Popov, E. P., Mechanics of Materials, Prentice Hall, 1976.
• Hibbeler, R. C., Mechanics of Materials, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, USA.
• Young, W. C., Roark’s Formulas for Stress and Strain, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1996.