MENG 201 Mechanics of Materials

Students will explore how material properties impact engineering design.  The course will cover plane stress, stress-strain and deflection-deformation relationships: elements of material behavior, mechanical and thermal properties of materials, axial loading, torsion, shear and bending moments, flexure and shear stresses and deflection in beams, combined loading, stress and strain transformation and measurement, generalized Hooke's Law, stress concentrations and factors of safety, statically indeterminate loading and column analysis. Prerequisites: MENG 102 and PHYS 272. (3)