GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
Strength of Materials/OM 214
Course Title: Strength of Materials
Credits 3 ECTS 5
Course Semester 4 Type of The Course Compulsory
COURSE INFORMATION
 -- (CATALOG CONTENT)
 -- (TEXTBOOK)
 -- (SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTBOOK)
 -- (PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES)
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- COURSE OBJECTIVES
 -- COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
To be able to explain the basic concepts of strength
To be able to analyze the load of machine elements and systems
To be able to make stress transformations and stress analysis
Be able to apply and analyze dimensioning principles in the frame of general design rules

 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  Face to face (Lecture, Problem solving, Question and answer)
 --WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week  General concepts, Force and moment balance, normal and shear stresses
2. Week  Tensile-elongation test, Hooke's law, Safety coefficient, fatigue
3. Week  Axial loading, elongation, changes in cross section
4. Week  Tension, compression, shear stresses, notch factor, strains in thin-walled cups
5. Week  Torsion and angular displacement,
6. Week  Shaft sizing and power transfer
7. Week  Moment of inertia
8. Week  Simple beam, moment and cut diagrams, Midterm exam
9. Week  Bending stress and shear forces
10. Week  Slope-slope calculation
11. Week  Unified stress, plane stresses
12. Week  Display of Mohr tensile stresses and stresses
13. Week  Buckling and flapping; critical load, delicacy grade, Euler and Johnson formula
14. Week  Sprains of columns and columns, Energy methods
15. Week  
16. Week  
 -- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS
 -- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Total Weighting (%)
 Midterm Exams
1
30
 Assignment
1
10
 Application
0
0
 Projects
0
0
 Practice
0
0
 Quiz
2
20
 Percent of In-term Studies  
60
 Percentage of Final Exam to Total Score  
40
 -- WORKLOAD
 Activity  Total Number of Weeks  Duration (weekly hour)  Total Period Work Load
 Weekly Theoretical Course Hours
14
3
42
 Weekly Tutorial Hours
14
1
14
 Reading Tasks
0
 Searching in Internet and Library
10
1
10
 Material Design and Implementation
0
 Report Preparing
10
2
20
 Preparing a Presentation
0
 Presentation
0
 Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam
1
17
17
 Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam
1
17
17
 Other (should be emphasized)
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
120
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
4.8
 Course Credit (ECTS): 
5
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
 PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1Capability of obtaining adequate knowledge in mathematics, science and engineering subjects in the automotive field; applying theoretical and practical knowledge for modeling and solving engineering problems in this field.X
2Capability of formulation and solving engineering problems; for this purpose selecting and appliying the appropriate analysis and modeling methods.X
3Capability of evaluation of engine and vehicle design projects, designing any engine and vehicle parts, to bring prototype and series production stage.X
4Capability of design of complex systems for specific needs, component or process in whole or in part.X
5Capability of development of modern methods and tools necessary for engineering applications, selection and effective use and to use of information technologies effectively.X
6Capability of analysis of the engineering problems and for the solution designing and performing experiments, collecting data, analyzing and interpretting the results.X
7Capability of work in team and individual and ability to work effectively with other disciplines.X
8Capability of effective communication both verbal and written in Turkish and at least one foreign language konwledgeX
9Capability of access to information in the framework of lifelong learning, to follow the developments in science and technology and self-improvement.X
10Resposibility of professional and ethical liability.X
11Awareness of leadership, entrepreneurship, innovation and sustainable development in business life.X
12Being competent in the engineering applications, legislations, legal consequences and in the field of occupational health and safety.X
13Capability of research and application in the subjects of noise, environment and emissions.X
14Capability of making education in the field.X
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
   (Prof. Dr. H. Serdar Yücesu)
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (https://websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/yucesu)
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (yucesu@gazi.edu.tr , hsyucesu@gmail.com)