Applied Mechanics of Solids
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Applied Mechanics of Solids Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Applied Mechanics of Solids (subject code 2171916) as prescribed for Mechanical Engineering · Semester 7 divides the course into 6 units, covering 32 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2171916)Unit 1 State of stress
- body and surface forces
- traction vector and stress tensor
- stress transformations
- principle stresses
- spherical and deviatoric stresses
- equilibrium relations
- Mohr’s circle
- Experimental techniques*
Unit 2 State of strain
- general deformation
- geometric construction of small deformation theory
- strain transformations
- principle strains
- spherical and deviatoric strains
- strain compatibility
- Mohr’s circle
Unit 3 Stress function formulation
- plane stress
- plane strain
- generalized plane stress
- Airy stress function in Cartesian and polar coordinates
Unit 4 Yield and failure criteria
- yield criteria independent of hydrostatic pressure
- failure criteria for pressure dependent materials
Unit 5 Elastic stress strain relations
- linear and nonlinear elastic isotropic stress strain relations
- principle of virtual work
- Drucker’s stability postulate
- convexity and uniqueness for an elastic solid
- incremental stress strain relation
Unit 6 Stress strain relation for perfectly plastic materials
- plastic potential and flow rule
- flow rules associated with von Mises
- Tresca and Mohr- Coulomb yield function
- normality and uniqueness for elastic perfectly plastic materials
- incremental stress strain relations
- Prandti- *Topics should be covered in only laboratory hours
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