Faculty of
Engineering

 This course covers the following topics: rigid and deformable solids, tension, thermal stresses, elastic constants, volumetric strains; transverse loading on beams, shear force and bending torques in beams; torsion formulation, stresses and deformation in axes; deflections of beams, conjugate beam and strain energy, Maxwell’s reciprocal theorem; stresses in thin cylindrical shells due to internal pressure, circumferential and longitudinal stresses and deformation in thin and thick cylinders and deformation in spherical shells.