VFSTR UNIVERSITY

Mechanical Engineering Department

ME 503- ADVENCED MECHANICS OF SOILDS

COURSE OBJECTIVES and LEARNING OUTCOMES

Unit-I
COURSE OBJECTIVES
At the end of this course, students will be able to formulate shear centre for various
symmetrical and unsymmetrical sections
At the end of this course, students will be able to calculate the bending stress of
unsymmetrical sections.

OUTCOMES
- Ability to calculate the principle moment of inertia of various cross sections.
- Ability to determine the bending stress of unsymmetrical sections.
-Ability to locate the shear centre for various symmetrical and unsymmetrical sections.

Unit-II
COURSE OBJECTIVE

At the end of this course, students will be formulate the torsion of non circular solid and
multi cell sections.
At the end of this course, students will be able to calculate the centrifugal stresses of rotating
discs.
OUTCOMES
- Knowledge of soap film and membrane analogy
- Ability to apply soap film analogy and to calculate the torsion of non circular sections.
- Ability to derive the centrifugal stresses of rotating rings and discs.

Unit-III
COURSE OBJECTIVE

At the end of this course, students will be able to find slope, deflection, bending moment of
various beams for different loading conditions.

OUTCOMES
- Acquaintance with the terminology and types beams.
- Knowledge of Winkler beam theory
- Ability to derive the deflection, slope bending of infinite and semi infinite beams for Point load
and UDL.
Unit-IV

COURSE OBJECTIVE

At the end of this course, students will be able to find the crippling load of columns for
various boundary conditions.

OUTCOMES
- Acquaintance with different types of columns.
- Acquire the knowledge of the Eulers theory and Rankines hypothesis.
- Ability to calculate effective length of columns for various boundary conditions.

Unit-V

COURSE OBJECTIVE

At the end of this course, students will be able to understand the Winkler bach formula and its
derivation for bending stress for curved beams

OUTCOMES
- Acquire the knowledge to differentiate the beams and curved beams.
- Ability to derive the bending stress of curved beam of various cross sections