Preparation

• Read section 3-13 on stress concentrations and section 3-18 on curved beams in the book.
• Have a look at the Wikipedia article on stress concentrations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_concentration

Concepts

After this lesson you should be able to:

• Find the change in stresses due to irregular features on an element.
• Find the stresses in a curved beam using curve beam theory.

Upcoming Due Dates

• The Solidworks FEA tutorial (see the Smartsite assignment) result is due electronically before class on Friday the 16th.
• The Project 1 Google Doc report draft should be shared with the instructors and your team members before class on Friday the 16th.
• Homework #3 is due Monday, October 19th.