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 Durati Ref
on
1.0General Concept of Stress and Strain 6 hrs Chap 1,2
1.1Normal stress and strain
1.2Shear stress and strain
1.3Materials behavior, Hooke’s Law, Elastic Constants,
Poisson’s Ratio
2.0Axial Load 9 hrs Chap 2
2.1Elastic deformation of an Axially Loaded Members
2.2Statically determinate and indeterminate Axially
Loaded members
2.3Thermal Stress
3.0Torsion of Solid and Hollow Circular Sections 6 hrs Chap 3
3.1Torsional Deformation of a circular shaft
3.2Torsion formula, Angle of Twist, Statically
Indeterminate Shafts
3.3Power Transmission Shafts

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

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