MECHANICS II


General Info


  • Course Title: Mechanics II
  • Course Code: NAOME1211
  • Semester: 2nd
  • Course Type: S.B.1
  • Weekly Teaching Hours: 5 (Lectures)
  • Credits (ECTS): 6
  • Offered to ERASMUS+ students: No
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  • Professors: D. Dragatogiannis


Course Content / Syllabus


Introduction – Basic principles, Stress and strain diagrams, failure stress, safety factor, fatigue of materials. Axial tension-compression. Hooke’s law, Poisson ratio, thermal stresses, statically indeterminate problems. Simple shear loading. Plane stress and strain, Mohr’s circle, Generalized Hooke’s law. Pure and general bending of beams. Radius of curvature, maximum normal stresses, beams made of composite materials, distribution of shear stresses, principal stresses. Method of Elastic Beam Curve, method of superposition, method of conjugate beam. Torsion of circular shafts, of thin-walled section and of cellular section. Statically indeterminate problems. Complex loadings: Buckling, Double and/or non-symmetric bending, eccentric axial loading. 3D loading condition, stress and strain tensors, generalized Hooke’s law. Energy methods: Deflection energy in axial loading, bending moment, shear force, torsion moment and complex loading. Introduction to virtual work principle. Castigliano’s theorem. Failure analysis tests.


Course Outline



  1. G.B. = General Background, S.B. = special background, S.: Specialised.↩︎