{"id":204,"date":"2015-01-19T15:34:35","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T20:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/moss\/?page_id=204"},"modified":"2023-09-05T11:36:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T15:36:33","slug":"courses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/moss\/courses\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n
\nresearch<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
\npeople<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
\nteaching<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
blog<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n

Teaching<\/h1>\n

\"beam_banner\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Photo Credit: Ashley Daubenmire Photography<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/p>\n
\n

Since 2015, Prof. Holmes has led DICE<\/b> (D<\/b>igital I<\/b>nspiration, Communication<\/b>, and E<\/b>ducation), a program that hopes to improve understanding, communication, and accessibility for mechanics students. We have digitized lecture notes, created lecture videos, started a Structural Mechanics Newsletter<\/a>, engaged academics and the general public on Twitter\/X<\/a><\/span>, created graduate-level short courses, and published open source code.<\/p>\n

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1454153<\/a>. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

ME305: Mechanics of Materials<\/h3>\n

\"beam_banner\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

This course covers concepts of stress, strain, and deformation. We will introduce constitutive relationships that couple stress to strain by the material’s properties. We show how normal and shear stresses can emerge by axial loaded, torsional loaded, bending, and pressure, and we demonstrate how the stresses are combined during more complex loadings. We will show how stress can by transformed to identify the magnitudes and directions of principal stresses. Finally, we will introduce the concept of structural stability to describe the buckling of beams under compressive loading.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

The goals of this course are:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

    \n
  1. To identify and calculate stresses in various engineering structures.<\/li>\n
  2. To determine how mechanical structures deform in response to external loads.<\/li>\n
  3. To understand how stress and strain combine to enable problems with complex loads to be solved.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    \n

    Syllabus: Fall 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

    \n

    Statics Review: PDF<\/a>
    \nStatics Review Solutions:     PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

    \n

    The course progresses through the following topics:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n