Strenght of materials (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

0-5

Objective

The students have the basic knowledge of the strength of materials and they understand the importance of strength in applications of energy technology.

Content

Balance of particles and rigid bodies. Supports. Stresses. Tensions and deformations caused by normal and shear forces.

Materials

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

Teaching methods

Recorded lectures and calculation examples and face to face lectures. Assignments are based by problem-based learning. As help when you do your assignments you can use recorded lectures, examples, discussion list and files in your studying environment and also face to face lectures. You can do assignments individually or in groups, but you must always return the assignments individually. In distance learning you can join the webinars to get help in the assignments. In contact method you can get help for the assignments in the workshops. In the middle of the course, you give anonymous feedback.

Exam schedules

Exam and two resists based on degree regulations.

Student workload

Recorded lectures and examples or face to face lectures 28 h, learning assignments 28 h either online or by distance learning in study environment and independent learning work 79 h. Total 135 h learning work.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Adequate (1): The student is familiar with the basic knowledge and terminology but in dimensioning of basic beam 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 beam structures the skills are inadequate. The student can satisfactorily solve simple basic problems.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

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

Very good (4): The student masters the basic knowledge of dimensioning beam 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.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

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

Qualifications

Handling powers and roots, reducing expressions, application of right and oblique triangle trigonometry, vector calculation, solving first and second degree polynomial equations and radical, exponential and logarithmic equations and pairs and sets of equations.
SI unit system, transformation of units, magnitude calculation, Newton’s laws, friction. The basic knowledge of the statics.