Spring 2025
ME212 Strength of Materials
General 4-0-0 = 4 GTU credits, 6 ECTS credits,
information: Tu: 13:30-16:20 ((Elektronik Z02), Tue: 16:30-17:20 (Elektronik Z02)
Instructor: Prof. Dr. Mehmet Ali Arslan
H2 Z23, mehmet.arslan@gtu.edu.tr, (262) 605-2781
Teaching Ongun Bora Saban – Building H2 117, obsaban@gtu.edu.tr, (262) 605-2737
assistants: TBA
Office hours: Instructor: Tue: 11:30-12:30 TA’s: Tue: 11:30-12:30
Textbooks: • Hibbeler, R. C. (2016). Mechanics of Materials (10th Ed.). Upper
Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education. ISBN 978-0134319650
• Mechanics of Materials, 7th Edition, Ferdinand P. Beer, E. Russell
Johnson, Jr. and John T. DeWolf, David F. Mazurek, McGraw Hill,
2015.
Catalog The primary goal of this course is to introduce undergraduate students; the
description: definition of stress, stress and deformation, bending of beams and
associated deflections, shear stress in beams, torsion of circular shafts,
combined stresses due to bending shear and torsion, shear and axial loads.
Transformation of stress, principal stresses, and Mohr’s circle. If time
permits, introduction to energy principles, failure criterions, stability and
buckling problems.
Prerequisite: None
Course type: This course is required for all Mechanical Engineering students.
Integrity All students are expected to act with civility, academic and personal integrity,
statement: respect others’ dignity, rights, and property; and help create and maintain an
environment in which all can succeed through the fruits of their own efforts.
Grading: Homework 15% - Midterm 40% - Final Exam 45%
a. Students who fail to meet the 70% attendance requirement in the
course fail with an NA grade; they are not entitled to take the final exam.
(Excel or “FR-0345 Ders Devam Çizelgesi” will be used for attendance check and “FR-0349
Öğrenci Devamsızlık Bilgilendirme Formu” will be used for unattendance reporting.)
Three-hour attendance is taken in the first-class hour by signature including the first
break, after that no one is allowed to sign the attendance sheet. In the second or
third class hour, Instructor may re-check the attendance list by calling out names, if
a student is not in the classroom, then that student’s attendance signature is not
counted, and a Student is recorded as NOT-ATTENDED for all 3 class hours.
b. A student who fails to achieve at least 25% success in the weighted
average of midterm exam and homework evaluations during the term
will fail with a VF grade; they are not entitled to take the final exam.
c. Students whose success in the final exam is below 25/100 (or not taken
the final exam) are considered to have failed the course with an FF
grade, regardless of their other grades/studies.
d. Not failing the items, a, b and c above does not mean to have
succeeded in the course; for students who meet the minimum
requirements stated in these articles, course grade evaluation is made
separately in the [FF-AA] range.
e. Final Letter Grading ranges are given below. The instructor fully
reserves the right to use/modify all of the following point grade ranges
for determining the final letter grades.
Points Grade
90-100 AA
85-89.99 BA
80-84.99 BB
70-79.99 CB
65-69.99 CC
55-64.99 DC
50-54.99 DD
0-49.99 FF
Unsuccesful w/o
VF
Final
Course Web Sharing information about the course (announcements, files, assignments,
Page etc.) will be done via MS Teams. It is the student's responsibility to monitor
the system(s) regularly. ME 212 Strength of Materials (Spring, 2024)
Teams icon. In case of any faults in these systems communication will be
provided through GTU e-mail accounts or In Class.
Grade All grade announcements (HWs, Mid-Term, Final etc.) are done in the
Posting TEAMs environment as per the rules stated by KVKK guidelines.
Topics covered and Schedule(Tentative):
Week Topic
1 Review of Mechanics, Units, Reactions, Joints
2 Stress, Allowable Stress Design
3 Deformation, Strain, Mech. Properties of Materials, Homework 1
Strain Energy, Poisson’s ratio
4 Saint-Venant’s Principle, Method of Superposition,
Statically Axial Indeterminate Structures
5 Thermal Stress, Stress Concentrations, Torsion Homework 2
6 Torsion Power Transmission, Angle of Twist, Statically Homework 3
Indeterminate Torque Loads, Solid Non-Circular Shafts
7 Bending, Shear and Moment Diagrams Homework 4
8 Bending Continued, Unsymmetric Bending
9 Midterm Exam (22 April 2025, ln class hours) Midterm
10 Exam 5
Homework
Transverse Shear, Pressure Vessels
11 Combined Loadings, Stress Transformation Homework 6
12 Principle Stresses and Mohr´s Circle
13 Strain Transformation
14 Deflection of Beams Homework 7
15 Review – if required
16 Final Exam (17 June 2025, First week of the Finals) Final Exam
