Mechanics of Solids (APL108)
Dr. Md Rushdie Ibne Islam
Department of Applied Mechanics
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Hauz Khas – 110016, Delhi, India.
E-mail:
[email protected] 1
Course info
✓ Credit (3-1-2).
✓ Pre-requisite: APL100.
✓ Syllabus: Introduction, State of stress at a point, equations of motion,
principal stress, maximum shear stress. Concept of strain, strain displacement
relations, compatibility conditions, principal strains, transformation of
stress/strain tensor, state of plane stress/strain. Constitutive relations, uniaxial
tension test, idealized stress-strain diagrams, isotropic linear elastic,
viscoelastic and elasto-plastic materials. Energy Methods. uniaxial stress and
strain analysis of bars, thermal stresses, Torsion, Bending and shear stresses
in beams, deflection of beams, stability of equilibrium configuration.
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Course info
✓ Main textbook: Advanced Mechanics of Solids by L.S. Srinath.
✓ Supplementary textbooks:
1. An Introduction to Mechanics of Solids by Crandall, Dahl, Lardner and
Sivakumar.
2. Elasticity: Theory, Applications and Numerics by Martin Sadd.
3. Solid Mechanics for Undergraduates by Ajeet Kumar
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Course info
✓ Tentative Lecture Plan:
• Introduction and mathematical preliminaries
• Analysis of stress - Traction vector, types of stress, stress tensor
• Linear and Angular momentum balance; Equilibrium equations
• Principal stresses; Mohr's circle
• Analysis of strain - types of strain, strain tensor, rotation tensor,
compatibility conditions
• Stress-strain relations (Hooke's Law), Elastic constants
• Failure Theories
• Stress, strain, equilibrium equations in cylindrical coordinates
• Energy Methods
• Bending of beams, symmetrical and unsymmetrical beams, shear centre
• Torsion
• Buckling of columns
• Additional topics (depending on time)
Major Exam (Full syllabus)
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Tutorial guidelines
✓ Students are encouraged to try to practice the tutorial sheet questions before
coming to the tutorials. In case that is not possible, try to attend the tutorial
and understand the problem and then write your own solution during the
tutorial or afterwards. It is only after you have tried the problem yourself that
you may look into the solution provided. In addition, you are encouraged to
regularly practice questions from the main and supplementary textbooks as
suggested above.
✓ Number of tutorial: 11 to 12
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Quiz
✓ Three quiz will be taken. Date, syllabus and mode of the quiz will be
informed in due time.
✓ Out of these three quizzes - two will be considered for grading purposes.
✓ No re-quiz under any circumstances.
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Minor and Major Exams
✓ Minor and major exams will be held according to the institute timetable.
✓ Major will be on the entire syllabus, with more weightage on the topics
covered after minor.
✓ Re-minor and re-major – as per institute policy.
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Grading Policy
Component Weightage (%)
Quiz 20
Minor 25
Major 35
Lab 20
Total 100
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Attendance policy
✓ Attendance in class/tutorials is strongly encouraged. Students are encouraged to
actively participate in the class/tutorials.
✓ It is recommended that students maintain at least 75% attendance.
✓ Institute Policy.
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Policy on cheating
✓ Students using unfair means in exams (including both copiers and copyees) will
face strict administrative actions. These may include getting barred from the exam
hall, getting zero marks in the corresponding exam and even deregistration from the
course.
✓ However, please note that students are allowed and even encouraged to discuss the
course material, tutorials and lab work with their classmates.
✓ But the final answer must be written by the students themselves with proper
understanding and not copied from others.
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Guidelines for lab component
✓ Students must submit lab report of every experiment the following week.
✓ The concepts and procedure demonstrated in the experiment must be correct.
✓ The final answer, if not exactly correct, must at least be reasonably close to the
exact result.
✓ The report must be submitted within 10 minutes of the start of the lab.
✓ Experimental data must be original and not copied or fabricated.
✓ Reports will not be graded if these guidelines are not followed.
✓ Each group will be divided into three subgroups and three parallel experiments will
be performed in a day.
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List of Experiments
✓ S1: Hardness Testing (Brinell & Rockwell)
✓ S2: Strain Gauge (Tensile & Bending)
✓ S3: Uniaxial Tension
✓ S4: Uniaxial Compression
✓ S5: Torsion
✓ S6: Impact (Izod)
✓ S7: Impact (Charpy)
✓ S8: Buckling
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Class schedule
✓ Lecture:
▪ Room Number: LH 410
▪ Schedule: Tue, Thu, Fri (11 AM to 11:50 AM)
✓ Tutorial:
▪ Room Number: LH 410
▪ Schedule: As discussed in the class.
✓ Lab:
▪ Room Number: SOM Lab, Block IV, Ground Floor, Applied Mechanics
Department
▪ Schedule: Groups will follow the schedule provided by the UG section
▪ Monday – (2:30 PM to 5:00 PM)
▪ Tuesday – (2:30 PM to 5:00 PM)
▪ Thursday – (2:30 PM to 5:00 PM)
▪ Friday - (2:30 PM to 5:00 PM)
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Teaching Assistants
✓ Tutorial:
• Harshul Malik*
✓ Lab:
• Monday: (2:30 PM to 5:00 PM)
• Tushar, Saurabh Singh, Prakalp.
• Tuesday: (2:30 PM to 5:00 PM)
• Navneeth, Aquib, Chandrakesh, Harshwardhan Soni
• Thursday
• Aswathy, Jerome, Subhanu, Bholender Singh
• Friday: (2:30 PM to 4:30 PM)
• Vishabjeet, Neha, Digesh, Ishwar
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Email
✓ Please email me with your name and entry number if you face any issue or have any
request.
✓ This applies even if you speak to me in the class. Please follow it up with an email
so that I have a record.
Thank You
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