Preparation

• Bring your laptop to class with Solidworks installed.
• Read section section 3-18 on curved beams in the book.
• Read section section 3-14 on stress in pressure vessels in the book.

Concepts

After this lesson you should be able to:

• Find the stresses in a curved beam using curve beam theory.
• Compute stresses in a pressure vessel.

Upcoming Due Dates

• The Solidworks FEA tutorial (see the Smartsite assignment) result is due electronically before class.
• The Project 1 Google Doc report draft should be shared with the instructors and your team members before class.
• Homework #3 is due Monday, October 19th.