Course Information

Course Information
Course Title Code Language Type Semester L+U Hour Credits ECTS
Strenght of Materials AEM212 Turkish Compulsory 4. Semester 3 + 0 3.0 3.0
Prerequisite Courses
Course Level Undergraduate
Mode of delivery Required
Course Coordinator Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Serkan ÖZDEMİR
Instructor(s)
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
# Öğrenme Kazanımı
1 Describes the basic principles of strength and static.
2 Structurally analyzes the furniture systems.
3 Structurally analyzes furniture joints.
4 Analyzes the stress and strain; external and internal forces; tension, compression, shear, bending, torsion and twisting strengths.
5 Analyzes the trusses systems.
6 Knows the relations between section size and safety stress.
Lesson Plan (Weekly Topics)
Week Topics/Applications Method
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
*Midterm and final exam dates are not specified in the 14-week course operation plan. Midterm and final exam dates are held on the dates specified in the academic calendar with the decision of the University Senate.
Relations with Education Attainment Program Course Competencies
Program Requirements DK1 DK2 DK3 DK4 DK5 DK6
Recommended Sources
Ders Kitabı veya Notu Ders Kitabı veya Ders Notu bulunmamaktadır.
Diğer Kaynaklar
  • 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
ECTS credits and course workload
ECTS credits and course workload Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Sınavlar
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
*AKTS = (Total Workload) / 25,5 ECTS Credit of the Course 3.0