Advanced Strength of Materials, Certificate

This module is drawn from our suite of Civil Engineering masters programmes. It examines main concepts, theories and principles applied for explaining the mechanical behaviour of materials under various states of stress and strain conditions.

This module provides an in-depth understanding of the major principles used in evaluating the response of construction materials to stresses and deformation.

By attending this module you will:

• develop advanced knowledge related to the constitutive laws governing the behaviour of the material subject to elastic and plastic deformation due to various types of loading.
• develop the ability to interpret how and why material fails based on technical argument of the theories of material failure.
• develop the skills to interrelate the theoretical and experimental results.

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Course content:

• mechanical properties of materials (modulus of elasticity, shear modulus, bulk modulus etc)
• stress-strain relationships (linear elastic, nonlinear elastic, elasto-plastic and visco-elastic)
• unsymmetrical bending of non-standard sections
• torsional stresses of non-circular and thin-walled sections, and the effect of warping, elastic membrane (soap film) analogy and plastic (sand hill) analogy
• complex stress and strain analysis, plane stress, plane strain and axisymmetric analysis of solid bodies
• theories of material failure including Tresca, Von Meises and Mohr–Colomb
• experimental stress-strain analysis.