Course Information

Course Information
Course Title Code Semester L+U Hour Credits ECTS
Strenght of Materials AEM212 4. Semester 3 + 0 3.0 3.0
Prerequisites None
Language of Instruction Turkish
Course Level Undergraduate
Course Type
Mode of delivery Required
Course Coordinator Assist. Prof. Dr. Serkan ÖZDEMİR
Instructors Serkan ÖZDEMİR
Assistants
Goals Course Objectives Ensure the understanding of basic engineering concepts. Given to staff awareness of behavior. Analysis and synthesis skills to gain
Course Content Describes the basic principles of strength and static. • Structurally analyzes the furniture systems. • Structurally analyzes furniture joints. • Analyzes the stress and strain; external and internal forces; tension, compression, shear, bending, torsion and twisting strengths. • Analyzes the trusses systems. • Knows the relations between section size and safety stress.
Learning Outcomes - Describes the basic principles of strength and static.
- Structurally analyzes the furniture systems.
- Structurally analyzes furniture joints.
- Analyzes the stress and strain; external and internal forces; tension, compression, shear, bending, torsion and twisting strengths.
- Analyzes the trusses systems.
- Knows the relations between section size and safety stress.
Weekly Topics (Content)
Week Topics Learning Methods
1. Week Introduction: Strength in Basic Principles and Assumptions
2. Week Introduction to Stress: Stress Concept, Normal and Shear Stresses
3. Week Stress: Security and Sizing
4. Week Deformation: Strain, Axial Deformation
5. Week General Method: General Method for Analysis of Conformity-Geometric Terms
6. Week Stresses Transformation: Plane of Stress, Mohr's Circle
7. Week Transformation of displacements: Plane Strain Condition, Mohr's Circle
8. Week Bending: Simple Bending
9. Week Composite Bending Elements
10. Week Cutting: Cutting the influence of Shear Stress Elements
11. Week Multipart-sections Accounts
12. Week Multipart-sections Accounts
13. Week Buckling
14. Week Buckling
Recommended Sources
Ders Kitabı veya Notu • M.H. Omurtag, "Mühendisler için mekanik statik ve mukavemet", Literatür  yayınevi, İstanbul, 2007
Diğer Kaynaklar • Eckelman, C.A., Strength Design of Furniture, Textbook, Purdue University, West  Lafayette, Indiana, USA, 2003
Relations with Education Attainment Program Course Competencies
Program Requirements Contribution Level DK1 DK2 DK3 DK4 DK5 DK6 Measurement Method
*DK = Course's Contrubution.
0 1 2 3 4 5
Course's Level of contribution None Very Low Low Fair High Very High
Method of assessment/evaluation Written exam Oral Exams Assignment/Project Laboratory work Presentation/Seminar
ECTS credits and course workload
Event Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm 1 1 3 3
Homework 1 3 3 9
Homework 2 3 3 9
Final 1 3 3
Practice 3 4 12
Classroom Activities 14 3 42
Total Workload 78
ECTS Credit of the Course 3.0