SE department

SE 110A. Solid Mechanics I (4 units)

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Description

Concepts of stress and strain. Hooke’s law. Stress transformation. Axial loading of bars. Torsion of circular shafts. Torsion of thin-walled members. Pure bending of beams. Unsymmetric bending of beams. Shear stresses in beams. Shear stresses in thin-walled beams. Shear center. Differential equation of the deflection curve. Deflections and slopes of beams from integration methods. Statically determinate and indeterminate problems. Prerequisites: MATH 20D and SE 101A.

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Successor courses

SE 110A is a prerequisite of the following 13 courses:

• MAE 131B
• MAE 133
• SE 110B
• SE 130A
• SE 132
• SE 142
• SE 160A
• SE 163
• SE 164
• SE 171
• SE 180
• SE 181
• SE 271