Design Notes

These notes are supplied to assist you with design analyses you will be performing in your project. They supplement the information given in class and in your text book (Hibbeler 2000). The notes are given in PDF format, so you will need to download Acrobat Reader if you don't already have it. Click here to download.

• Introduction
• Engineering Design Process
• Modeling
• Assumptions
• Axial Loading; See a Simple Stretching Animation
  To see the material axial test animation,  click "Animations" from the main menu, then choose "Stress-Strain Diagram".
• Axial Design: Battery Strap
• Bending: Design for Strength, Stiffness and Stress Concentrations
  To see the bending animations,  click "Animations" from the main menu, then choose "Bending" or "Shear Moment Diagrams".
• Van Voorhis's notes and examples of bending and torque
• Column Buckling: Design using Euler Theory
  To see the buckling animation,  click "Animations" from the main menu, then choose "buckling".
• Plane Stress: Combined Loading/Stress Design Supplement Notes unfinished
  To see the Mohr's circle animation,  click "Animations" from the main menu, then choose "Mohr's circle" or "Mohr's circle (procedure)"
• Torsion: Power Transmission and Stress Concentrations Design Supplement
  To see the torsion animation,  click "Animations" from the main menu, then choose "Torsion" or "Torsion with-a-cut".
• Advanced example from Granta Material Intelligence that, given enough time, EMch 13 students could do it.