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Overview

After participating in this course, you will be able to:

• Apply the principles of stress, strain, and elastic behaviour to analyze various materials.
• Create detailed axial force, shear, and bending moment diagrams for members under different loading conditions.
• Grasp essential structural engineering concepts, including stability and torsion, to enhance your analytical skills.
• Design and evaluate structural members subjected to different forces using foundational engineering concepts.
• Calculate stresses, strains, deflections, and buckling loads in structural components precisely.

Description
Delve into the core of structural mechanics, a fundamental discipline that tackles the computational challenges of analyzing elastic structural elements. This course offers an exploration of critical concepts such as stress, strain, torsion, and stability, providing a foundation for anyone looking to excel in mechanical, civil, or aerospace engineering. By understanding the principles of statics, stress-strain relationships, and the behaviour of materials under various loads, participants will gain the skills necessary to analyze and design structural members effectively.

Equipping yourself with these essential skills enables you to construct detailed force diagrams, calculate deflections, and understand the behaviour of beams, columns, and other structural elements under different conditions. Whether focused on tension, compression, torsion, or bending, this course covers the necessary tools and methodologies, including Mohr’s circle, Hooke’s law, and the analysis of principal stresses.

Ideal for professional engineers, educators, and students alike, this course offers practical insights into incorporating computational tools into structural analysis. Strengthen your foundational knowledge and apply these principles to real-world engineering problems, ensuring your skills are up-to-date with the latest advancements in structural mechanics.

Who Should Attend
This course is designed for professional engineers, educators, and students specializing in mechanical, civil, and aerospace engineering.

It's particularly beneficial for those who wish to deepen their understanding of structural mechanics and apply computational tools to analyze elastic structural elements. Individuals aiming to enhance their knowledge in statics, stress, strain, torsion, and the behaviour of structural elements under various loads will find this course invaluable.

This course covers practical applications that benefit those designing and analyzing structures subjected to different forces.

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Syllabus

Course Outline

• Introduction to Principles of Statics
• Definitions of Stress, strain and Torsion
• Normal and Shear Stress
• Analysis of principle stresses and Mohr’s circle
• Stress-Strain Relationships & Hooke’s Law
• Poisson Effect on Materials
• Introduction to Axial Members
• Analysis of structural elements under bending
• Introduction to Torsion Members
• The behaviour of Rod and Shafts in Torsion
• Deflection of beams
• Introduction to stability and buckling

Instructor

Ashraf Dabayeh, M.A.Sc., Ph.D.

Ashraf is currently a Manager of Engineering with Bombardier Aerospace.

Dr. Dabayeh received his M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo, specializing in fatigue and crack growth analysis of metallic materials, structural analysis and design of steel structures, stress analysis using the finite element method, multiple-site damage analysis, and composite and metallic repairs of aging aircraft materials. With over fourteen years of work experience with IMP Aerospace, L-3 Communications, and Bombardier Aerospace, he has been involved in the design and repair of metallic structures in the aerospace and automotive industries. The author of several scientific publications, Dr. Dabayeh has delivered papers at different North American and European scientific conferences on topics related to fatigue and fracture mechanics of metallic and composite structures. He has also contributed to scientific textbooks in the same field.