MECH&AE 156A
Advanced Strength of Materials
Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, two hours; outside study, six hours. Requisites: courses 82, 101. Not open to students with credit for course 166A. Concepts of stress, strain, and material behavior. Stresses in loaded beams with symmetric and asymmetric cross sections. Torsion of cylinders and thin-walled structures, shear flow. Stresses in pressure vessels, press-fit and shrink-fit problems, rotating shafts. Curved beams. Contact stresses. Strength and failure, plastic deformation, fatigue, elastic instability. Letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Fall 2023 - Fantastic professor. I rarely write Bruinwalk reviews, and usually only do so for professors I think people should avoid. However, Niko Nordendale is excellent. His lectures are very concise and simple, breaking down complex topics in ways that even the most below average engineer may understand. Additionally, he is very articulate and speaks slowly enough to digest everything that he is saying. As for the homework, there were between 2-5 problems a week. Usually this was broken down by difficulty, with 2 being easy, 2 moderate, and 1 hard problem. They were very fair and most of the information needed to solve the problem could be found from the class notes or the book. If this isn't good enough for you yet, the exams were very reflective of the class material. The best part was the class before the exams where Niko would do a set number of practice problems, the same number of problems that just happened to be on the test. Without explicitly reusing the questions, if you understand the formulas for each of the problems (this class is more formulas heavy than almost any other course) then you were basically guaranteed a B or above on all of the exams. Could not recommend him more. Would take again.
Fall 2023 - Fantastic professor. I rarely write Bruinwalk reviews, and usually only do so for professors I think people should avoid. However, Niko Nordendale is excellent. His lectures are very concise and simple, breaking down complex topics in ways that even the most below average engineer may understand. Additionally, he is very articulate and speaks slowly enough to digest everything that he is saying. As for the homework, there were between 2-5 problems a week. Usually this was broken down by difficulty, with 2 being easy, 2 moderate, and 1 hard problem. They were very fair and most of the information needed to solve the problem could be found from the class notes or the book. If this isn't good enough for you yet, the exams were very reflective of the class material. The best part was the class before the exams where Niko would do a set number of practice problems, the same number of problems that just happened to be on the test. Without explicitly reusing the questions, if you understand the formulas for each of the problems (this class is more formulas heavy than almost any other course) then you were basically guaranteed a B or above on all of the exams. Could not recommend him more. Would take again.
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