TAM 251: Introductory Solid Mechanics

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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, 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.

TAM 2XX Policies:

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

Grading:

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

Retake quizzes: Optional retake quizzes are available in the week following each first-chance quiz. If you choose to take the retake quiz, the quiz score will be 90% of the higher scores + 10% of the lower score (0.9*max(first_chance_score, retake_score)+0.1*min(first_chance_score, retake_score)). If you do not take the first-chance-quiz, then your score will be 90% of the retake score.

Discussion sections:

Discussion sections will be held in 0023 LuMEB.

Discussion sections are held according to the schedule below. 

	Monday	Tuesday	Thursday
9-10			ADC TA: Jiaming CA: Chris
10-11			ADD TA: Jiaming CA: Madison/Diego
11-12	AD6 TA: Sharier CA: Emily/Garrett		ADE TA: Yaswanth Jetti CA: Eamon/Christine
12-1	AD1 TA: Junren CA: Emily/Garrett
1-2	AD2 TA: Junren CA: Madison/Eamon
2-3	AD3 TA: Younghyuk CA: Chris/Diego	AD7 TA: Jehyung CA: Alejandra/Christine
3-4	AD4 TA: Younghyuk CA: Chris	AD8 TA: Jehyung CA: Alejandra/Aneesh
4-5	AD5 TA: Younghyuk CA: Alejandra/Garrett	AD9 TA: Jehyung CA: Madison/Christine
5-6		ADA TA: Junren CA: Eamon/Aneesh

 

Office hours:

Teaching and course assistant office hours are held according to the schedule below. Office hours start in the second week of the semester.

Office hours will be held in 1047 LuMEB.

In addition to office hours, there will be quiz review sessions on Monday and Tuesday 3pm - 5pm starting week 4 (TA: Jiaming).

 

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
6-7	TA: Younghyuk CA: Diego/Aneesh	TA: Jehyung CA: Madison/Diego	TA: Junren CA: Chris/Emily/Eamon	TA: Junren CA: Christine/Garrett	TA: Sharier CA: Alejandra/Christine
7-8	TA: Younghyuk CA: Diego/Aneesh	TA: Jehyung CA: Madison/Diego	TA: Junren CA: Chris/Emily/Eamon	TA: Yaswanth CA: Christine/Garrett	TA: Sharier CA: Alejandra/Christine
8-9	TA: Younghyuk CA: Aneesh	TA: Jehyung CA: Eamon/Diego	TA: Jiaming CA: Emily/Garrett/Eamon	TA: Yaswanth CA: Aneesh/Eamon	TA: Jiaming CA: Alejandra

Online forum (Campuswire):

TAs and CAs monitor Campuswire according to the following schedule:

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
TA: Younghyuk CA: Diego	TA: Jiaming CA: Chris	TA: Jehyung CA: Emily	TA: Jiaming CA: Aneesh/Alejandra	TA: Yaswanth CA: Garrett	TA: Sharier CA: Christine	TA: Junren CA: Madison