TAM 251: Introductory Solid Mechanics

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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.
• 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

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 are held according to the schedule below.

	Tuesday	Wednesday
9-10
10-11
11-12		ADF TA: Ben CA: Eamon, Jerich
12-1		ADG TA: Ben CA: Eamon
1-2	ADA TA: Christian CA: Eamon, Emily	ADH TA: Ben CA: Eamon, Madison
2-3	ADB TA: Jairo CA: Madison, Emily
3-4	ADC TA: Jairo CA: Jerich
4-5	ADD TA: Jairo CA: Jerich, Alejandra

 

Office hours:

Yaswanth: Wednesday & Friday: 1 - 2 pm at 0028 LuMEB or by appointment. 

Teaching and course assistant office hours are held in 2043 LuMEB according to the schedule below. Office hours start from the second week on Aug. 28th. 

Quiz review sessions happen only on Mondays and Tuesdays starting from week 4. 

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
8-9
9-10
10-11
11-12
12-1
1-2
2-3
3-4
4-5
5-6
6-7	Jairo Eamon	Christian Madison	Ben Emily Alejandra	Ben Jerich	Jairo Alejandra
7-8	Jairo Eamon	Christian Madison	Ben Emily Alejandra	Ben Jerich	Jairo Alejandra
8-9

Online forum (Campuswire):

TAs and CAs monitor Campuswire according to the following schedule:

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Christian Eamon	Jairo Eamon	Christian Madison	Ben Emily	Ben Jerich	Jairo Alejandra	Christian Madison