Course Description
This laboratory reinforces the basic concepts of normal stress, shear stress, torsion, beam bending and deflection, and beam design as taught in the Strength of Materials course. Formal engineering reports are required with emphasis on writing and spreadsheet skills.
This course consists of 12 two-hour periods with technical reports and design project.
STCW Objectives
Topics
- Excel Assignment
- Izod and Charpy Impact
- Ultimate Shear Stress
- Ultimate Tensile Stress by Extensometer
- Torsion Tinius-Olsen
- Poisson’s Ratio
- Bending Stress on a prismatic beam -
- Stress Concentration
- Principal Stresses
- Equation of the Elastic Curve
- Design Project
This lab is counted towards workshop skills for STCW purposes.