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RWE 224 Strength of Materials

ND2 levelEngineering & Technology15 topics

RWE 224 covers 15 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
  2. Types of stresses and strains
  3. Hooke’s law
  4. Stress–strain curves
  5. Strength properties of engineering materials
  6. Shearing force and bending moment
  7. Beams and types of loads
  8. Shear force and bending moment diagrams
  9. Contraflexure, neutral axis and moment of resistance
  10. Shear stress and torsion in circular shafts
  11. Shaft materials, types and design requirements
  12. Mohr’s circle
  13. Composite bars and temperature stresses
  14. Bending stresses
  15. Second moment of area

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Stress and strain

Stress and strain are the fundamental measures of material behaviour under load. Stress, the internal force per unit area, tells how a material resists deformation, while strain, the relative change in dimension, indicates the extent of deformation.

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