Strength of materials deals with the effect of forces on deformable bodies. In addition, material-dependent parameters should be considered as well. An introduction to the strength of materials is, therefore, given by the concept of stress and strain and by Hooke’s law, which is applied to tension, pressure, torsion and bending problems.

Elastic deformations

SE 110.14 Elastic line of a beam

WP 950 Deformation of straight beams

SE 110.47 Methods to determine the elastic line

SE 110.29 Torsion of bars

WP 100 Deformation of bars under bending or torsion

SE 110.20 Deformation of frames

FL 170 Deformation of curved-axis beams

SE 110.44 Deformation of trusses

TM 262 Hertzian pressure

TM 400 Hooke’s law

Buckling and stability

SE 110.19 Investigation of simple stability problems

SE 110.57 Buckling of bars

WP 121 Demonstration of Euler buckling

WP 120 Buckling behaviour of bars

Compound stress

FL 160 Unsymmetrical bending

WP 130 Verification of stress hypotheses

Experimental stress and strain analysis

FL 101 Strain gauge application set

FL 100 Strain gauge training system

FL 102 Determining the gauge factor of strain gauges

FL 152 Multi-channel measuring amplifier

FL 120 Stress and strain analysis on a membrane

FL 130 Stress and strain analysis on a thin-walled cylinder

FL 140 Stress and strain analysis on a thick-walled cylinder

FL 200 Photoelastic experiments with a transmission polariscope

FL 210 Photoelastic demonstration