Curricula

Objectives

The students can calculate stresses affecting beam and plate structures and they are able to estimate their strengths. The students can calculate the effect of impact loads.

EA-KN EUR-ACE Engineering analysis: Students understand principles of strength of materials and how it is based on statics, mathematics and physics.

EA-EN Engineering practice: Students are able to use the principles of strength of materials to solve engineering problems.

TKNPE Basics of mechanical engineering: Students able to apply their knowledge of strength of materials to solve engineering problems with the help of statics, mathematics and physics.

Content

Hyperstatic beam- and framed structure. Obstructed torsion. Buckling . Lateral buckling. Bending of a curved beam. Plate and slab structures. Contact stresses. Impact loads.

Learning materials and recommended literature

Hand outs.
Valtanen, E. 2019. Tekniikan taulukkokirja. Jyväskylä: Genesis-Kirjat Oy.

Teaching methods

Lectures and calculation examples. Assignments are based by problem-based learning. As help when you do your assignments you can use your notes from lectures, hand outs, examples and literature. You can do assignments individually or in groups, but you must always return the assignments individually. In calculation lectures you can get help for the assignments from the lecturer or other students.. In the middle of the course, you give anonymous feedback.

Exam dates and retake possibilities

Exam and two resits.

Student workload

Lectures and examples 42 h and independent learning work 39 h. Total 81 h learning work.

Evaluation scale

0-5

Evaluation criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

The grade is defined by exam 90% and homework 10%.
Adequate (1): The student is familiar with the basic knowledge and terminology but in dimensioning of basic structures the skills are clearly inadequate. The student can solve simple basic problems in an adequate manner.

Satisfactory (2): The student is familiar with the basic knowledge and terminology of stresses and strains but in dimensioning of basic structures the skills are inadequate. The student can satisfactorily solve simple basic problems.

Evaluation criteria, good (3-4)

Good (3): The student is familiar with the knowledge of dimensioning beam and plate structures and can apply the knowledge acquired to simple structures to solve tensions and strains. The students can apply their knowledge to solve tension and strains from basic structures. The student also understands those situations which require more precise and profound strength inspection

Very good (4): The student masters the essential knowledge of dimensioning beam and plate structures and can apply the knowledge acquired to basic structures to solve tensions and strains. The student also understands those situations which require more precise and profound strength inspection. .

Evaluation criteria, excellent (5)

Excellent (5): The student masters the essential knowledge of dimensioning beam and plate structures and can apply the knowledge acquired in an innovative manner to more challenging structures to solve tensions and strains. The student also understands those situations which require more precise and profound strength inspection.

Prerequisites

The students have the basic knowledge of the strength of materials and they are able to static sizing of structures with the help of manuals and sizing table cases. The students can form a mechanic model from a structure under inspection and they can solve the stresses, tensions and deformations affecting it. The students can perceive the cases which require more precise and profound strength inspection.