MAE department

MAE 131A. Solid Mechanics I (4 units)

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Description

Concepts of stress and strain. Hooke’s Law. Axial loading of bars. Torsion of circular shafts. Shearing and normal stresses in beam bending. Deflections in beams. Statically determinate and indeterminate problems. Combined loading. Principal stresses and design criteria. Buckling of columns. Prerequisites: MATH 20D and MAE 30A or MAE 130A or SE 101A.

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Successor courses

MAE 131A is a prerequisite of the following 11 courses:

• MAE 131B
• MAE 133
• MAE 156A
• MAE 160
• SE 110B
• SE 130A
• SE 132
• SE 142
• SE 160A
• SE 171
• SE 181