Cooke, H. (2022, August), Fifteen-Plus Years of Strength of Materials with Pool Noodles and More!  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--40605

\bibitem{asee_peer_40605}
  Cooke, H. (2022, August), \emph{Fifteen-Plus Years of Strength of Materials with Pool Noodles and More!}
  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN.
  10.18260/1-2--40605

Harry Cooke.  "Fifteen-Plus Years of Strength of Materials with Pool Noodles and More!".  2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August.  ASEE Conferences, 2022.  https://peer.asee.org/40605 Internet.  27 Apr, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_40605}
  Harry Cooke.
  "Fifteen-Plus Years of Strength of Materials with Pool Noodles and More!".
  \emph{2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2022.
  https://peer.asee.org/40605 Internet.  27 Apr, 2025

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title = "Fifteen-Plus Years of Strength of Materials with Pool Noodles and More!"
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Over the years it has been widely recognized within the academic community, and published in the literature, that using physical demonstrations in the classroom helps students better visualize and understand behaviors and concepts being taught in lecture and coursework.  Many different types of classroom demonstrations for undergraduate strength of materials courses involving the use of a variety of materials and experimental set-ups have been described by various authors.  For many instructors the available time for preparing and using these demonstrations in class, as well as associated costs, can present challenges to utilizing this educational tool.  This paper describes several strength of materials demonstrations used in the civil engineering technology program at Rochester Institute of Technology for beam bending, torsion, and column buckling involving no more than one or two pool noodles, a roll of masking tape, and a black magic marker, hence minimizing the time and cost factors.  In addition, simple demonstrations for longitudinal shear in transversely loaded beams and stress/strain transformation are presented.  Student feedback on the effectiveness of these classroom demonstrations for helping them visualize and understand specific physical behaviors is also presented.
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