Paper format. National Exams, May 2017 — 16-Mec-B9 Advanced Engineering Structures. Three hours, open book, any non-communicating calculator permitted. Eight questions of equal total value (20 marks each); the rubric states that any five constitute a complete paper. All eight are solved here, because the complete set is the study resource.
Reference texts.
- T. H. G. Megson, Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students, 6th ed. — unsymmetrical bending, shear flow in open and closed thin-walled sections, shear centre, structural idealisation, single- and multi-cell torsion (Ch. 15, 16, 17, 20, 23).
- A. C. Ugural and S. K. Fenster, Advanced Strength and Applied Elasticity, 5th ed. — three-dimensional stress states, the Tresca and von Mises yield criteria, torsion of non-circular prismatic bars (Ch. 1, 4, 6).
- A. P. Boresi and R. J. Schmidt, Advanced Mechanics of Materials, 6th ed. — torsion of solid rectangular sections and of multiply connected cells (Ch. 4, 6).
- R. M. Jones, Mechanics of Composite Materials, 2nd ed. — orthotropic lamina stiffness, the reduced stiffness matrix and its transformation (Ch. 2).
- N. E. Dowling, Mechanical Behavior of Materials, 4th ed. — strain-life fatigue, the Coffin–Manson relation, the Palmgren–Miner rule, and Paris-law crack growth (Ch. 9, 11, 14).
