Structures 2 Notes
Structures 2 Notes
Structures 2 Notes
Lecture Questions:
Chapter 4 (Torsion):
Look at Aircraft Structures book for torsion of multicell thin walled sections
Done: Q1-9
Gone Wrong:
Q3 Always remember when to round up or to round down your answers.
Especially in the case of torsion it is important to sometimes round down your
answer this is quite counterintuitive!
Q5 I am getting an answer of 1.77
Q6 When drawing shear flow distribution show the arrows of the shear flow too
When the question mentions the length of a thin section this the longitudinal
length L rather than the perimeter of the cross section.
You always forget to square the area in the calculation of polar moment of
inertia.
You made the mistake of subtracting the shear stresses 1 and 2 to find the shear
stress in the middle vertical web. In fact it was necessary to subtract the shear
flows 1 and 2 and to then divide the result by 2.5mm to get the shear stress in
the middle web.
You also took the torque value as being 10 to the 3 while actually it was 10 times
10 to the 3 (i.e. 10 to the 4 in total)
The answer for the angle of twist given below seems to be wrong. It seems to be
twice the actual value (the person forgot the half the answer at the end)
http://14.139.172.204/nptel/CSE/Web/105108070/module7/lecture16.pdf
Pg 519 you forgot to put negative signs for all your answers:
10.55 couldnt do
Torsion:
From http://nguyen.hong.hai.free.fr/EBOOKS/SCIENCE%20AND
%20ENGINEERING/MECANIQUE/MATERIAUX/Mechanics%20of
%20Materials.rar_FILES/Mechanics%20of%20Materials/Volume
%202/32666_05.pdf
The shear flow measures the force per unit length along the tubes crosssectional area.
The applied torque causes the shear flow and the average stress to always be
directed tangent to the wall of the tube, such that it contributes to the resultant
internal torque T.
For torsion of thin-walled closed sections look at Hibbeler book, pg228 onwards
Do example, 5.11, 5.12,
Example 5.12 really tests your understanding of this topic!
Hibbeler
Questions
Chapter 7 Transverse Shear (Hibbeler 8th edition):
Done: F7.1 F7.5, Q7.1 Q7.16 (Need to do review questions!!!)
Q7.3 is a good question (you did this correctly)
Q7.5 is a good question (when integrating for area, always put limits that agree
with the positive convention for the y and x axes)
Q7.9 is a very good question
Got Wrong:
Example 7.1 pg 367
F7.1 You needed to work out the first moment of area and thickness of one
flange only (THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT CONCEPT!)
F7.2 This question got you real bad (You should know that the maximum shear
stress need not be positive, so when you draw the shear force diagram look at
the point with the highest amplitude to work out the maximum shear stress)
F7.5 You made a mistake in calculating the second moment of area
Q7.1 You took the wrong thickness (you took the top thickness which is incorrect)
Q7.4 (Minor mistake)
Q7.6 (For a point below the neutral axis, take the moment of area below the
section of the interest)
Q7.8
Q7.12 Look at solution. This is how you are supposed to present shear stress
distribution across a cross-section (focus particularly on the equation of the
curve given)
Q7.13 and Q7.14 (You calculated the second moment of area and the first
moment of area incorrectly)