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70101 Strength of Materials
Danish title: Styrkelære 1
Language: Danish Credit points: 5
Type: Open University
Language: Danish

Previous course: C7001
No credit points with: C5901/C7001
Prerequisite: 01020/01021/01002/01003.10002/10010
Recommended semester: 1st - 4th semester
Scope and form: 2 lecture modules per week, 2 hours/week of problem solving.
Examination: Written exam (13-scale)
Contact person: Viggo Tvergaard, Building 404, Tel. +45 4525 4273, email vit@mek.dtu.dk

Department: Department of Solid Mechanics
Aim: To introduce the basic concepts and methods of strength of materials. To enable the student to deal with elementary problems concerning strength of structures.
Contents: Single forces. Moment of single forces. Force systems. The fundamental principle of statics. Projection on a line. Loading, reaction and sectional forces. Statically determinate and indeterminate structures. Uniaxial tensile testing. Hookes law for uniaxial stress. Simple, elastic beams. Beams made of composite materials. Euler columns. Skew bending. Hookes law for shearing. Torsion of bars and tubes with circular cross-section. Shear stress distribution in beams. The shear centre. The superposition principle. Simple, combined beam structures. Limit load for ideally plastic materials.