3.11 Administration

Instructor

Room 6-202, phone 3-3309, email roylance@mit.edu

Office hours MTWF 9-10 & 11-12, R 9-12. Special student consultation appointments arranged by email, but feel free to drop by anytime.

Teaching Assistant:

Sara Ransom, room 8-115, phone 2-1511, email slransom@mit.edu, office hours to be arranged.

Subject Goals

Develop the formal theory of solid mechanics - the equilibrium, kinematic, and constitutive equations.
Develop closed-form and computational methods for stress analysis of typical engineering structures.
Introduce the atomistic mechanisms underlying mechanical behavior of materials, in the context of process - structure - property - performance concepts in materials engineering.
Provide continuing development in mathematics and computer operations for engineering problems.
Provide a context for mechanics of materials within the broad practice of modern engineering, to include statistical approaches, design methods, case studies, and the societal responsibility of engineers.

Class meeting times

Lectures MWF10, room 4-149; recitations T10 and T11, room 13-4101.

Text

David Roylance, Mechanics of Materials, John Wiley & Sons, 1996. The table of contents of this text is also the 3.11 syllabus.

Grading

Individual homework and quiz problems will be graded on a 0-5 scale, and averaged for the problem set or quiz overall grade (no curve). Quizzes count 35% each toward the final letter grade; problem set average counts 30%. Final letter grades will be reported as:

4.8-5.0 - A+
4.6-4.79 - A
4.4-4.59 - A-
4.2-4.39 - B+
4.0-4.19 - B
3.8-3.99 - B-
3.6-3.79 - C+
3.3-3.59 - C
3.0-3.29 - C-
2.0-2.99 - D

Quiz schedule: March 17, May 12 (no final).

Homework: Problem sets normally submitted on Fridays. Late submissions will usually be accepted without penalty (subject to honesty considerations described below), although of course tardinesss should be avoided if possible.

Academic Honesty

All work turned in for credit - problem sets, quiz papers, etc. - must be your own individual work unless specific instructions to the contrary have been given to you by the instructor.

Group discussion of problem sets is allowed and encouraged, but the problems should then be worked out and written up on an individual basis. Turning in problems copied directly from bibles is cheating, and you are encouraged to contact the instructor or TA for help if you get stuck on a problem.