Applied Strength of Materials

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Department of Mechanics, Biomechanics and Mechatronics

Synopsis:

Restrained (bending) torsion of thin-walled profiles. Matrix methods to be applied on trusses and frameworks. Force and deformation methods. Finite element method (FEM). Fatigue strength of materials. Mechanics of brittle fracture. Influence of plastic zones on cracks propagation. Subcritical crack growth. Plastic limit analysis of structures. Limit analysis of trusses, beams, frameworks and plates.

Requirements:

Statics, Kinematics, Strength of Materials

Syllabus of lectures:

1.Restrained (bending) torsion of thin-walled profiles

2.Structural mechanics

3.Matrix methods to be applied on trusses and frameworks.

4.Force and deformation methods.

5.Finite element method (FEM).

6.Fatigue strength of materials.

7.Mechanics of brittle fracture.

8.Influence of plastic zones on cracks propagation. Subcritical crack growth.

9.Plastic limit analysis of structures.

10.Limit analysis of trusses, beams, frameworks and plates.

Syllabus of tutorials:

Introduction into analysis of complex structures by means of both classical and advanced methods.

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Study materials:

1.Boswell L.F., D´Mello C. A: Dynamics of Structural Systems, Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, 1993

2.Georgie R.Buchanan: Finite Element Analysis, Schaum?s Outline Series,1995

3.William B.Bickford: Advanced Mechanics of Materials, Addison-Wesley, 1998

4.A.S. Tooth and J.Spence: Applied Solid Mechanics -2, Elsevier Applied Science, 1988.

5.A.Mrázik, M.Škaloud, M.Tocháček: Navrhování ocelových konstrukcí podle teorie plasticity, In Czech, (Steel structures design by the limit analysis), SNTL, 1980

6.A.J.Davies: The Finite Element Metod: A First Approach, Clarendon Press-Oxford, 1980

7.D. T. Read, Richard Palmer Reed: Fracture Mechanics: Eighteenth Symposium, ASTM International, ISBN 0803109490, 1988

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