UNIVERSITY OF Tor; 

 DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINE 



end Sfrnctnra J 



CONTENTS 



SECTION I 



STRESS AND DEFORMATION 



Elastic resistance, or stress. Varieties of strain. Strain diagram. 

 Hooke's law. Elastic limit. Working stress. Resilience. 

 Poisson's ratio. Temperature stress Applications . . . . . 



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SECTION II 

 FIRST AND SECOND MOMENTS 



Static moment. Fundamental theorem of moments. Center of 

 gravity. Centroid. Centroid of triangular area. Centroid of 

 circular arc. Centroid of circular sector and segment. Centroid 



of parabolic segment. Axis of symmetry Centroid of composite 



figures. Moment of inertia. I for rectangle. I for triangle, 



I for circle. I for composite figures. Applications 15-34 



SECTION III 

 BENDING-MOMENT AND SHEAR DIAGRAMS 



Conditions of equilibrium. Vertical shear. Bending moment. 



Bending-moment and shear diagrams. Relation between shear 



and moment diagrams. Properties of shear and moment diagrams. 



General directions for sketching diagrams. Applications . . 3:. 1^ 



SECTION IV 

 STRENGTH OF BEAMS 



Nature of bending stress. Distribution of stress. Fundamental 

 formula for beams. Calculation and design of beams. Applications 



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