MEC 135 - Mechanics Laboratory at Tidewater Community College
Course Description
Effective: 2016-11-01
Analyzes tension, compression, torsion, bending, fatigue, impact strength, and hardness of materials. Addresses static and dynamic stresses and strains. Provides for statistical evaluation of data. Includes experiments and/or demonstrations.
Laboratory 2 hours per week.
1 credits
General Course Purpose
The purpose of this course is to provide laboratory experimental analysis of the MEC 132 course equations to determine the forces imposed on footings, shafts, beams, columns, joining mechanisms, and other structures and machine parts.
Course Objectives
- Utilize standards and practices in conducting engineering laboratory work related to strength of materials.
- Measure and compare selected engineering materials properties.
Major Topics to be Included
- Structures, loads on structures, elastic, plastic and viscoelastic materials
- Simple states of stress, strains and stresses, testing machines
- Tension and compression testing
- Torsion testing
- Introduction to bending, pure elastic bending
- Bending with shear
- Mechanical behavior of materials: fatigue, creep, hardness
- Stress transformations
- Tests with strain gages
- Beam deflection test
- Equilibrium and stability, stability and buckling