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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