TAM 251: Introductory Solid Mechanics

Website:

The official class website is http://courses.engr.illinois.edu/tam251/

Description:

Relationship between internal stresses and deformations produced by external forces acting on deformable bodies, and design principles based on mechanics of solids: normal stresses, shear stresses, and deformations produced by tensile, compressive, torsional, and bending loading of members; beam deflections; elastic energy and impact; multi-dimensional stress states; buckling of columns.

Big Idea:

Solid materials deform and break. The extrinsic relation of force and displacement is governed by intrinsic material measures of stress and strain. The challenge is to connect the extrinsic to the intrinsic.

Prerequisites:

TAM 210 or TAM 211.

Reference texts:

There is no required textbook for this class. However, these texts are very useful

• R. C. Hibbeler, Mechanics of Materials, 9th edition, Pearson, Prentice Hall, 2014.
• F. B. Beer, E. R. Johnston, J. T. DeWolf, and D. F. Mazurek, Mechanics of Materials, 7th edition, McGraw-Hill, 2015.
• R. R. Craig, Mechanics of Materials, 3rd edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2011.
• S. Timoshenko, History of Strength of Materials, Dover Civil and Mechanical Engineering, 1983.

TAM 2XX Policies:

General TAM 2XX course policies may be found at: http://mechref.engr.illinois.edu/pol/policies.html

Office hours:

Day	Person	Time
M	Yaswanth Sai Jetti	3:00 PM–4:00 PM
	Chaimongkol Saengow	5:00 PM–6:00 PM
T	Tusher Ahmed	4:00 PM–5:00 PM
W	Yaswanth Sai Jetti	3:00 PM–5:00 PM
	Tusher Ahmed	3:00 PM–5:00 PM
R	Chaimongkol Saengow	5:00 PM–6:00 PM

Course Slack:

This is the main channel of communication.  Here is the invitation link.  Students are encouraged to post public discussion on Slack #questions. We will never judge anyone for asking anything 🙂!!