TAM 251: Introductory Solid Mechanics

General Info	Grades	Formal Assessment	Contact Info
Website	TAM 2XX Policies	Discussions	Office hours
Course description	Grading		Online forum
Prerequisites
Reference text

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, theses 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.

TAM 2XX Policies:

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

Grading:

The total score for the course is computed with the following weights:

 

Discussion sections:

Discussion sections are held in Zoom meeting rooms at the links listed the schedule below.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday
9-10				ADC TA: Min CA: Emily
10-11				ADD TA: Matt CA: Iris, Emily
11-12				ADE TA: Matt CA: Yuhao, Emily
12-1	AD1 TA: Pouyan CA: Lauren, Yu
1-2	AD2 TA: Pouyan CA: Max, Mickey
2-3	AD3 TA: Amir CA: Lauren, Mickey	AD7 TA: Jehyung CA: Max, Christina
3-4	AD4 TA: Amir CA: Iris, Christina	AD8 TA: Bingyang CA: Max, Yu
4-5	AD5 TA: Jehyung CA: Christina	AD9 TA: Min CA: Yuhao

 

Office hours:

Teaching and course assistant office hours are held in Zoom meeting rooms at the links listed the schedule below. Office hours start in the second week of the semester.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
7-8
8-9	Pouyan
9-10				Mickey
10-11	Lecture	Iris	Lecture	Mickey	Lecture
11-12		Iris	Max
12-1		Prof. Jasiuk Password: TAM251	Max	Prof. Jasiuk Password: TAM251
1-2	Prof. Mercer Password: Mercer		Prof. Mercer Password: Mercer
2-3					Min
3-4
4-5		Emily		Matt Yuhao	Jehyung
5-6		Emily		Yuhao	Yu
6-7	Christina	Lauren			Yu
7-8	Christina Amir	Lauren
8-9	Amir			Bingyang
9-10				Bingyang

Online forum (Piazza):

TAs and CAs monitor Piazza according to the following schedule:

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Amir Lauren	Pouyan Christina	Bingyang Emily	Max Yuhao	Matt Mickey	Jehyung Iris	Min Yu