Conference Session

What's New in Mechanics of Materials?

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam Creuziger, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Wendy Crone, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

a team taught course in spring semester, difference in teaching styles of the faculty,difference in learning styles of the students, timing of the course in the students academic career,or general class makeup; it is not measured by the data.Responses to the question “How well do you feel that you understand the concept of shearstress?” were similar between semesters. When comparing the near 90% of respondents thatcould recognize the term shear stress, recognize equations containing shear stress and useequations containing shear stress, the main difference in is in the proportions that indicate if itwould be ‘easy’ or ‘very easy’. Fall semester respondents were more confident in how easythey considered each question with the exception of

Conference Session

What's New in Mechanics of Materials?

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Hennessey, University of St. Thomas; Luke Hacker, University of St. Thomas

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

. IntroductionChristian Otto Mohr (1835-1918), born in Germany in the coastal area by the North Sea, beganhis career as a civil engineer employed by the German railroad industry. During these years,Mohr began developing his theories of stress and strength of materials. At the age of 32, Mohrleft the railroad industry and became a full-time theoretical engineer and a professor ofmechanics. Eventually, after much investigation, Dr. Mohr developed a method for describingthe state-of-stress at a point, his “Circles of Stress,” which now bear his name1-3. “Mohr’s Page 11.502.2circles” have been used extensively in modern engineering, playing significant roles

Conference Session

Teaching with Technology in Dynamics and Mechanics of Materials

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Honghui Yu, The City College of New York; Feridun Delale, The City College of New York

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

for the course and instructor evaluation, student feedbackappears to be very positive. Introduction Mechanics of Materials (MoM) is the first course in solid mechanics, which coversstress, deformation and strength of simple shaped members, and their applications.Topics include concepts of stress and strain, uni-axial loading, torsion, beam bending,column buckling and stress/strain transformation, etc. As a mandatory course, it has farreaching effects in students’ future learning and career development. Since the introduction of Timoshenko’s book, [1] Strength of Materials, the subject Page 11.839.2has become