GATE Section-XE-D Solid Mechanics Syllabus
Course Syllabus
- Equivalent force systems
- Free-body diagrams
- Equilibrium equations
- Analysis of determinate trusses and frames
- Friction
- Particle kinematics and dynamics
- Dynamics of rigid bodies under planar motion
- Law of conservation of energy
- Law of conservation of momentum
- Stresses and strains
- Principal stresses and strains
- Mohr’s circle for plane stress and plane strain
- Generalized Hooke’s Law
- Elastic constants
- Thermal stresses
- Theories of failure
- Axial, shear and bending moment diagrams
- Axial, shear and bending stresses
- Combined stresses
- Deflection (for symmetric bending)
- Torsion in circular shafts
- Thin walled pressure vessels
- Energy methods (Castigliano’s Theorems)
- Euler buckling
- Free vibration of single degree of freedom systems
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