MECH&AE 156A
Advanced Strength of Materials
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Not open to students with credit for course 166A. Concepts of stress, strain, and material behavior. Stresses in loaded beams with symmetric and asymmetric cross sections. Torsion of cylinders and thin-walled structures, shear flow. Stresses in pressure vessels, press-fit and shrink-fit problems, rotating shafts. Curved beams. Contact stresses. Strength and failure, plastic deformation, fatigue, elastic instability.
Letter grading.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 82, 101.
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confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MECH&AE 156A
- MECH&AE 82Mathematics of Engineering
- MECH&AE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB
- MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
2 direct requisites. Showing 16 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
MECH&AE 156A
- MECH&AE CM140Introduction to Biomechanics
- MECH&AE C156BMechanical Design for Power Transmission
- BIOENGR CM140Introduction to Biomechanics
- MECH&AE 162DMechanical Engineering Design I
- MECH&AE 162EMechanical Engineering Design II





