1.

050 Engineering Mechanics

II. Stresses and Strength

Examples: Beam Statistics

 Program 9th Lecture

1-050 CONTENT
I. Dimensional Analysis: TODAY:
II. Stresses & Strength 1. Review: Beam Stress Model
2. Stresses and Equilibrium 2. Formulation of a Beam
Boundary Value Problem
1. Discrete Model
3. Statically Determined vs.
2. Continuum Model Statically Indetermined Beam
3. Beam Model Structures
3. Strength Models 4. Closure: Stresses &
Equilibrium
III. Deformation and Strain
4. How Strain Gages work?
Goal: Appreciate Force-Moment
IV. Elasticity Beam Model for solving beam problems
5. Elastic Model
6. Variational Methods in
Elasticity
V. How Things Fail? And How
to avoid it.
 Review: Beam Model

1. Scales in Structural O (dΩ1/ 3 ) << (h,b ) << l

Mechanics REV Section Beam
Dimension length

2. Reduction Formulas: F S = ∫ σ ⋅ e x dS
(from stresses to section
S
forces and section
moments) M S = ∫ x × (σ ⋅ e x )dS
S

3. Equilibrium: along dFS ext

+ f =0
beam axis, differential dx
equilibrium of forces
and moments dMS
+ ex × F S = 0
dx
 Formulation of a Beam Boundary

Value Problem

• Example • Force and Moment

Boundary Conditions
z y • Sum of all forces and
Moments along x is
zero
x
• Differential
ext Equilibrium of
f = − ρgS e z R
– Section forces
– Section moments
 Stresses & Equilibrium

Discrete System Continuum System Beam System

Elementary
System
Internal
“Stresses”

Boundary
Condition

Continuity
Condition

Diff. Force
Equilibrium

Diff. Moment
Equilibrium