2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses School of Engineering Undergraduate major in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Fundamentals of Mechanics of Materials S
- Academic unit or major
- Undergraduate major in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Kazuaki Inaba / Motoki Sakaguchi
- Class Format
- Lecture (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 3-4 Tue
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- EEE.D341
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 1Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 19, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course aims to teach students of non-mechanical engineering course basics of strength of materials to learn how to consider problems from the mechanical perspective. Topics include mechanical properties, stress and complicated stress, bending, twisting, strain energy, impact loading, buckling, stress concentration, plastic deformation and creep, fatigue and fracture, and nondestructive testing methods.
Course description and aims
By the end of this course, students will:
1. be able to explain the mechanical properties of materials
2. be able to calculate stress, strain, and deformation by external forces and moments
3. be able to explain mechanical behavior of materials which are necessary to design, produce, and maintain machines
Keywords
stress, strain, moment
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
- ・Applied specialist skills on EEE
Class flow
Students are given exercises every week.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Stress and strain | Understanding the roles of mechanics of materials, and explain what is stress and strain. |
| Class 2 | Mechanical properties, allowable stress and safety factor | Understand fundamental mechanical properties, allowable stress and safety factor. |
| Class 3 | Tension ,compression and thermal stress | Calculate stress, strain, and elongation in tension and compression of bar. |
| Class 4 | Torsion of bar | Calculate stress, strain and deformation in torsion of bar. |
| Class 5 | Bending of beam | Calculate stress distribution in bending beam. |
| Class 6 | Deflection of beam | Calculate deflection of beam based on the bending stress. |
| Class 7 | Material strength and fracture | Understand material strength and fracture |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
なし
Reference books, course materials, etc.
JSME Textbook Series. Mechanics of Materials. The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, ISBN-13: 978-4888981583 (Japanese)
Tomoaki Tsuji, Nattoku suru Zairyo Rikigaku, Kodansha, ISBN-13: 978-4061545397 (Japanese)
Evaluation methods and criteria
Course scores are based on short exams (30%) and final exam (70%).
Related courses
- LAS.P101 ： Fundamentals of Mechanics 1
- LAS.P102 ： Fundamentals of Mechanics 2
Prerequisites
None
Other
There is Web learning (https://jrecin.jst.go.jp/). See basic knowledge course of strength of materials. (Japanese)