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Undergraduate Course: Solid Mechanics 3 (MECE09009)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Engineering CollegeCollege of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 9 (Year 3 Undergraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryTo give a basic understanding of structural modelling and stress analysis to the student to check design work for strength and stability, to check stress existing designs and to investigate failure problems.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Students MUST have passed: Structural Mechanics 2A (SCEE08002)
Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2016/17, Available to all students (SV1) Quota:  None
Course Start Semester 1
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 20, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 10, Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 3, Formative Assessment Hours 1, Summative Assessment Hours 4, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 60 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 80 %, Coursework 0 %, Practical Exam 20 %
Additional Information (Assessment) Examination 80%
Laboratories 20%
Feedback Not entered
Exam Information
Exam Diet Paper Name Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S1 (December)Solid Mechanics 32:00
Resit Exam Diet (August)2:00
Learning Outcomes
On completion of the course, the students should be able to
1. Use singularity functions in bending moment equations
2. Recognise unsymmetric bending problems
3. Calculate stresses and deflections for skew loading bending problems
4. Calculate the position of the Princ. Axes in an unsymmetric cross section
5. Find the position of the NA in an unsymmetric cross section
6. Calculate the shear stresses in thin sections
7. Appreciate the limitations of the shear stress equation
8. Calculate the shear stresses in a cross section with one axis of symmetry
9. Calculate the position of the Shear Centre of a cross section
10. Apply Euler's Buckling Equation
11. Appreciate the errors in the Euler Buckling Equation
12. Use the slenderness ratio in the design of struts
13. Apply ecc. Loading as a design approach to real struts
14. Calculate the Work Done by external forces on structures
15. Calculate the Strain Energy stored in a structure due standard loading actions
16. Calculate the Strain Energy due to combined loading
17. Use strain energy to calculate impact stresses
18. Conservation of Energy in structures
19. Apply Unit Force Method to simple structures
20. Apply Castigliano's Th 1&2 to beams, curved beams, combined structures and frameworks.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Course URL http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/teaching/mech/
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Additional Class Delivery Information Tutorials either Tue or Wed 11.10-12.00.
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserDr Vengatesan Venugopal
Tel:
Email: V.Venugopal@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Lynn Hughieson
Tel: (0131 6)50 5687
Email: Lynn.Hughieson@ed.ac.uk
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