Advanced Strength of Materials

This learning track covers a comprehensive understanding of stress calculation in components, stress transformation, strain tensor, properties of isotropic, anisotropic, and orthotropic materials, torsion in non-circular shafts, theories of failures, principles and theorems of elasticity and thermal stress, unsymmetric bending and plate deformation, and stresses in thin shells. For instance, learners will understand how to calculate the strain at a point where the displacements are given in millimeters, the transformation of stresses from one system of coordinates to another, the relationship between elastic constants, the distribution of stresses when non-circular shafts undergo twist, the conditions that initiate the failure of a material, the application of the Uniqueness theorem, Principle of Superposition, Method of Virtual Work, and Minimum Potential Energy Principle, the calculation of stress in a plate that is simply supported at the edges and subjected to uniformly distributed pressure loading, and the stress calculations in cylindrical, spherical, conical, or toroidal shells.