Teaching at UTSA

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• Machine Element Design (ME 3823, 2018 Spring)

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• Introduction to mechanical design

• materials selection

• stress analysis

• deformation analysis

• static and fatigue theories of failure

• design of gears, shafts, bearings, mechanical springs, welded and bolted connections.

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• Mechanics of Solids (ME 3813, recently taught in 2017 Spring)

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• Axially loaded members

• Stress and strain

• Safety factor and allowable load

• Torsion of bars

• Beam shear and bending moment diagrams

• Beam stress and deflections

• Statically indeterminant structures

• Pressure vessels

• Buckling of columns

• Stress transformations, principal stresses