Course Description: Concepts of stress and strain, normal stress, shear stress, axial loading, torsion, beams, combined loading and combined stresses, deflection of beams, principal stresses; theories of failures, welded, riveted and bolted connections, columns; introduction to experimental stress analysis methods, laboratory report writing and an oral presentation.
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