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CEC 106 Strength of Materials

ND1 levelEngineering & Technology13 topics

CEC 106 covers 13 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Stress and strain in materials
  2. Stress–strain behaviour of brittle and ductile materials
  3. Elastic and plastic behaviour of structural materials
  4. Strength ranges, proof stress and factor of safety
  5. Tensile and compressive testing
  6. Centroids of sections
  7. Neutral axis and first moment of area
  8. Second moment of area
  9. Parallel axis theorem
  10. Section modulus of simple and compound sections
  11. Shearing force and sign conventions
  12. Bending moments and sign conventions
  13. Relationship between shear force and bending moment

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Stress and strain in materials

Stress and strain are the fundamental measures of internal forces and deformations in materials. Mastering their definitions, units, and relationships—especially Hooke’s law and the stress‑strain curve—is essential for solving engineering problems and for the NUC, CCMAS, NBTE, and NCCE exams.

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