Savitribai Phule Pune University, Maharashtra (SPPU), Civil Engineering Semester 3, Mechanics of Structures Syllabus

Unit - 1 Simple Stresses and Strains

1.1 Materials used in construction and their nature

1.2 Hooke’s Law

1.3 StressStrain Diagram for mild steel ductile material

1.4 Stress Strain curve for Brittle Material

1.5 Idealized stressstrain diagram

1.6 Concept of axial stresses compression tension

1.7 Strains Linear Lateral Shear and Volumetric

1.8 Elastic constants and their relations

1.9 Stresses and Strains due to change in Temperature.

1.10 Stresses and strains due to change in temperatureStresses strains and deformations in determinate and indeterminate structures for homogeneous and composite structures under concentrated loads and temperature changes.

Unit - 2 Shear Force and Bending Moment Diagram

2.1 Concept of Shear Force and Bending Moment

2.2 Relationship between Shear Force Bending Moment and Intensity of Loading

2.3 Shear Force and bending moment diagram for determinate beam due to concentrated uniformly distributed uniformly varying loads and couples.

2.4 Bending Moment and Loading Diagram from given Shear Force Diagram

Unit - 3 Shear and Bending Stresses

3.1 Shear stress in beam

3.2 Shear Stress Distribution for Various Cross Section Maximum and Average Shear Stress for Circular and Rectangular Section.

3.3 Bending Stresses in Beam Theory of Simple or Pure Bending Assumptions Derivation of Flexure Formula

3.4 Bending Stress and Distribution Diagrams

3.5 Moment of Resistance of Cross Section

Unit - 4 Torsion of Circular Shaftsand Principal Stresses and Strains

4.1 Torsion of Circular Shaft

4.2 Stresses Strain and Deformation in Determinate and Indeterminate Shaft of Hollow Solid Homogeneous CrossSection Subjected Twisting Moments.

4.3 Power Transmitted by Shaft

4.4 Principal Stress and Strain

4.5 Normal and Shear Stresses on Oblique Plane

4.6 Magnitude and Orientation of Principal Stresses and Maximum Shear Stresses

Unit - 5 Axially and Eccentrically Loaded Columns

5.1 Axially Loaded Column

5.2 Rankin’s Formula

5.3 Safe Load on Column

5.4 Limitations of Euler’s Formula

5.5 Direct and Bending Stresses for Eccentrically Loaded Short Column and Other Structural Components such as Retaining Wall Dams Chimneys etc.

5.6 Effect of Lateral Force and Self Weight

5.7 Resultant Stress Diagram Due to Axial Load Biaxial Load and Uniaxial Load

5.8 Concept of Core of Section for Solid and Hollow Rectangular and Circular Section

Unit - 6 Slope and Deflection of Beams and Trusses

6.1 Slope and Deflection of determinate beam by Macaulay’s Method

6.2 Strain Energy

6.3 Castiglione’s 1st Theorem

6.4 Joint Displacement of Determinate Trusses by Unit Load Method