(Prepared by Mehrdad Negahban, 1996-2004)

Please select from the following list:

• Overview
• Syllabus
• Grading policy
• Projects you can do for bonus points
• How materials carry load
• Hooke's law and factor of safety
• Extension of bars
• Thermal strain
• Torsion of a circular shaft
• Area moment of inertia 
• Pure shear and power transmission
• Distributed loads 
• Internal loads: Shear force, normal force, and bending moment 
• Shear load and bending moment diagrams
• Pure Bending
• Shear stress in beams
• Beams with axial loads
• Plane stress
• Mohr's circle for plane stress
• Hooke's law for plane stress
• Pressure vessels 
• Deflection of beams
• Deflection of beams by superposition
• Buckling of columns
• Homework Solutions
• The math you need to know
• Contact Dr. M. Negahban by e-mail (mnegahban@unl.edu)

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