After successful completion of the course, students are able to understand the fundmental concepts and methods of strength of materials and to apply them appropriately to practically relevant problems like rods, discs, plates and shells.
Torsion of straight rods with arbitrary cross section (thin-walled, shear center, torsion with constrained warping), curved rods, rotationally symmetric thin-walled structures (plates and shells), variational principles, approximation methods (Ritz, Galerkin)
A script for the course and additional documents for the course will be made available in the TUWEL online course.
Registration for the course is absolutely necessary for organisational reasons.
Course assesment is based on 2 written exams, which will include examples to solve, and on online quiz (TUWEL online-course, MC questions concerning the theoretical contents of this course). For further details see TUWEL online-course.