Syllabus - Mechanics of Solids & Fluids (MI 504 (B))

Concept of Stress and Strain

Stress and strain at a point; Axial and shear stresses, Ultimate and working stresses; Relation between stress and strain, Poisson's Ratio; Two dimensional state of strain, Principle stresses and Principle planes, Mohr's Circle, Two state of strain, Principle strains and principle axis of strain; Determination of Principle strain from strain measurements; Calculation of Principle stresses from Principle strains; Composite bars in tension and compression; Thermal stresses in composite bars.

Bending Stresses in Beams and plates

Pure bending, Bending Stresses, Section Modulus of rolled and built up sections, Composite beams, Distribution of normal and shear stresses across the section of a simple beam with vertical section of symmetry; Theory of plates.

Deflection of beams

Slope and deflection of beams by deflection methods; Area moment and conjugate beam methods, propped cantilever and fixed beams.

Introduction to Fluid Mechanics

Physical properties of fluids; Compressible and Incompressible fluids; Newtonian and Non-Newtonian fluids.

Fluid Statics

Pressure, density and height relationships; manometer pressure on curved and plane surfaces; Centre of Pressure; Buoyancy; Stability of Immersed and Floating bodies; Fluids in relative equilibrium.

Fluid Kinematics

Classification of flow: Uniform and Non-Uniform; Steady and Non- Steady; Laminar and Turbulent; One, Two, Three dimensional flows; Stream lines; Streak lines; Path lines; Stream Tubes; Elementary Explanation of stream function and velocity potential; Basic idea of flow nets.