MECH&AE 156A · MAE 156AAdvanced 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.
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Requisites: courses 82, 101.
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MECH&AE 156A
- MECH&AE 82Mathematics of Engineering
- MECH&AE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB
- MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
- MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables
- MECH&AE 101Statics and Strength of Materials
- MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculus
- MATH 1Precalculus
- PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
- MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
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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
- MECH&AE 166CDesign of Composite Structures
- MECH&AE 262Mechanics of Intelligent Material Systems
- MECH&AE M297CComposites Manufacturing
- MAT SCI M297CComposites Manufacturing
- C&EE M135CIntroduction to Finite Element Methods
- MECH&AE M168Introduction to Finite Element Methods
- MECH&AE CM240Introduction to Biomechanics
- BIOENGR CM240Introduction to Biomechanics
- MECH&AE M256ALinear Elasticity
- MECH&AE 256FAnalytical Fracture Mechanics
- MECH&AE M256BNonlinear Elasticity
- EPS SCI M224AElastodynamics
- MECH&AE M256CPlasticity
- MECH&AE M257AElastodynamics
- MECH&AE 258ANanomechanics and Micromechanics
- MECH&AE 261AEnergy and Computational Methods in Structural Mechanics
- C&EE M230ALinear Elasticity
- C&EE M230BNonlinear Elasticity
- C&EE 233Mechanics of Composite Material Structures
- C&EE M230CPlasticity
- MECH&AE 261BFinite Element Analysis for Solids and Structures
- MECH&AE 296BHigh-Temperature Mechanical Design
- MECH&AE C296AMechanical Design for Power Transmission
15 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 35 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.