EGEN 205: MECHANICS OF MATERIALS

SUMMER 2018

PREREQUISITES EGEN 201 OFFICE Contact instructor via email

SCHEDULE On-Line Lectures: HOURS
6/11 – 7/5 TEXT Mechanics of Materials: An Integrated
Approximately 3.25 Learning System, Philpot, T.A., 3rd ed.,
hours of lecture per day 2013, Wiley
FINAL: 7/5 GRADING Exam I 30 %
Exam II 30 %
Final Exam 40 %
INSTRUCTOR Steve Perkins
219 Cobleigh Hall TA Brad Hoefer
stevep@ce.montana.edu bradley.hoefer@ecat.montana.edu
Tutorials http://web.mst.edu/~mecmovie/

OBJECTIVES

To learn fundamental principles of mechanics of materials and to develop problem solving skills
through application of these principles to basic engineering problems. The course requires
prerequisite knowledge of mathematics, physics and statics. Students will develop skills necessary to
study the internal effects of stress and strain in a solid body that is subjected to external loading.

OUTCOMES

Students will be able to analyze stress and deformation in elementary axial, torsion, and bending
structures and design simple structures for these loadings. Students will acquire background
knowledge and experience in mechanics of materials topics that are required to support further study
in structures, soil mechanics (geotechnical engineering), machine design, etc.

COURSE STRUCTURE

The MSU web-based system called Desire2Learn (D2L) is used in this course as the platform for all
course activities, including grade-keeping, repository of recorded lectures, delivery of homework
solutions, lecture handout notes and communication on commonly asked questions. The only
exception is for exams, which will be taken in paper and pencil format as described later in this
document.

The D2L learning environment is accessed at the MSU website address: ecat.montana.edu. This site
contains a quick tutorial, information about usernames and passwords, system check procedures and
support for questions and problems. Use of the Mozilla Firefox internet browser is recommended with
accessing D2L. Certain features may not work if a different browser is used.

Lectures for the course are live videos taken of lectures delivered to on-campus students for this
same course taught in a previous summer. This next point is very important: Pay attention only to
lecture material pertaining to the topics covered; ignore all lecture material pertaining to dates

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and logistics. Any dates and logistics discussed in the recorded lectures pertain to those when the
lectures were recorded and are not pertinent to this summer’s on-line course. Lecture files on D2L
are numbered following the same numbering seen in the course schedule below. The longer lectures
on Tuesdays and Thursdays are broken into two parts, hence two lecture files for those days. Lecture
notes corresponding to the lecture number are posted on D2L. Students should download these
notes and have them available before watching each lecture.

HOMEWORK

Homework problems and textbook reading assignments should be performed daily by students as
shown in the course syllabus. Homework problems are selected to exemplify topics covered in the
course. Homework will not be collected or graded. Students are expected to work all problems
assigned. Working the homework problems is essential for learning the material covered in this
course. Students may collaborate with others to complete homework assignments. Homework
solutions will be posted on D2L. Students should work homework problems before checking their
solution with those posted on D2L.

EXAMS

Two semester exams and one final exam will be given. Exams are comprehensive and will address
material covered in lectures, homework and reading assignments. The final exam will cover the entire
course with an emphasis on material covered after the 2nd semester exam.

Online students must take exams at the assigned time and assigned day listed on the syllabus. The
time for the exams is 10:00 AM Mountain Standard Time. If you are in a different time zone, you must
take the exam at the same physical time as 10:00 AM Mountain Standard Time (i.e. take exam at
12:00 noon Eastern Standard Time, 11:00 AM Central Standard Time and 9:00 AM Pacific Standard
Time). Online students are required to take exams at an official proctoring center that is pre-approved
by the instructor. It is the student’s responsibility to find a proctor for the exams.

An approved proctor is an official testing service or center located at and part of an accredited State
University or College and be physically located in the United States of America. Proctors at private
institutions will not be accepted. The proctor must be able to read, write and speak English fluently.
All proctors must be verifiably associated with their state institution – proctors may be asked to
provide a photocopy of a valid photo ID. The proctor should have no personal or vested interest in the
student’s academic success.Examples of unacceptable proctors include: family, friends, relatives,
roommates, classmates, neighbors, professors etc.

Online students are required to email proctoring details, as described in the Student-Proctor
Agreement, to the instructor. The Student-Proctor Agreement must be filled out and signed by both
the student and the proctor, scanned and emailed to the instructor at least five business days prior to
the exam. The first exam is on Monday of the second week of classes, meaning the Student-Proctor
Agreement is due on the first day of class, June 11, 2018. Students do not have to use the same
proctor for each exam; however, it will be assumed that students will use the same proctor unless
prior notification is received.

An additional document is provided (Exam Proctor Instructions) as an example of the instruction

sheet that will be provided to proctors with each exam. The instructor will email a PDF of the exam
and instructions to the proctors about 24 hours prior to the scheduled exam date.

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 EGEN 205 Syllabus
Summer 2018
Week Day Date Lecture Topic Reading Homework
Introduction, Normal Stress,
1 1.1-1.4 1.2, 1.3, 1.8
1 Shear Stress, Bearing Stress
6-11
Inclined Sections, Design, Strain 1.5, 1.6, 4.1-
1.16, 1.17, 1.19,
2-1, 2-2
– Normal and Shear 4.5, 2.1-2.4
1.30, 2.4, 2.12, 2.14
3 Material Properties 3.1-3.4 3.4, 3.9, 3.19
2 6-12 Axial Loaded Members, Axial – 5.5, 5.6, 5.11, 5.27,
4-1, 4-2 5.1-5.5
Statically Indeterminate 5.29, 5.44
1 Axial – Thermal Stress, Stress 5.53, 5.56, 5.69,
5 5.6-5.7
Concentrations 5.72, 5.75
3 6-13
Torsion of Circular Bars, Angle of 6.4, 6.9, 6.10, 6.14,
6-1, 6-2 6.1-6.6
Twist 6.15, 6.19
Power Transmission, Statically 6.38, 6.41, 6.49,
7 6.8, 6.9
Indeterminate Torsion 6.65, 6.70, 6.73
4 6-14
Shear and Moment Diagrams 7.9, 7.12, 7.13,
8-1, 8-2 7.1-7.3
7.27, 7.32, 7.35
5 6-18 9 EXAM 1 (Lecture 1-7) 10:00 AM Mountain Standard Time
Bending and Flexure 8.6, 8.9, 8.12, 8.20,
10-1, 10-2 8.1-8.5
6 6-19 8.21, 8.23
11 Unsymmetrical Bending 8.8 8.74, 8.76, 8.77
2 Transverse Shear 9.11, 9.12, 9.14,
12-1, 12-2 9.1-9.7
7 6-20 9.29, 9.31
13 Shear Flow/Built up Beam 9.8 9.42, 9.45, 9.49
14-1, 14-2 Beam Deflections 10.1-10.5 10.4, 10.8, 10.13
8 6-21
15 Statically Indeterminate Beams 11.1-11.3 11.3, 11.15, 11.17
SIB and Superposition, Stress
9 6-25 16-1, 16-2 11.5, 12.1-12.4 11.28, 11.31
Transformations
10 6-26 17 EXAM 2 (Lecture 8-16) 10:00 AM Mountain Standard Time
3 18-1, 18-2 Stress Transformations 12.5-12.9 12.32, 12.41, 12.44,
11 6-27
19 Mohr’s Circle, Maximum Shear 12.10 12.69, 12.82, 12.88
Strain Transformations, Hooke’s 13.22, 13.53, 13.56,
12 6-28 20-1, 20-2 13.1-13.5, 13.8
Law 13.65
21 Thin Wall Pressure Vessels 14.1-14.3 14.7, 14.9, 14.10
13 7-2 Combined Loads 15.4, 15.10, 15.25,
22-1, 22-2 15.1-15.4
4 15.42
14 7-3 23 Column Buckling 16.1-16.3 16.12, 16.21
15 7-5 24 FINAL EXAM (Comprehensive) 10:00 AM Mountain Standard Time