STRESS, STRENGTH AND SAFETY

• The concept of safety factor
• Stress concentration
• Resolving static indeterminacy
• Elementary load building blocks - tension, shear, bending and torsion
• Stress resolution and principal stresses; strain resolution
• Failure theories - distortion energy, maximum shear stress and modified Mohr theories
• Putting it all together - the design equation for static shafts of circular cross-section
• Power transmission shafting - an introduction

• Appendix
  • Analysis of statically indeterminate assemblies with multiple components

• Bibliography
• Problems
• Solutions

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