Advanced Strength of Materials

MECH&AE 156A - Advanced Strength of Materials

<p>Lecture, four hours; discussion, two hours; outside study, six hours. Requisites: courses 82, 101. Not open to students with credit for course 156A. Introduction to two-dimensional elasticity, stress-strain laws, yield and fatigue; bending of beams; torsion of beams; warping; torsion of thin-walled cross sections: shear flow, shear-lag; combined bending torsion of thin-walled, stiffened structures used in aerospace vehicles; elements of plate theory; buckling of columns. Letter grading.</p>

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

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Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science

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General Catalog

Analysis of Aerospace Structures

MECH&AE 166A

4 units