Strength of Materials
High in The Sky
The Fundamentals
Famous Bridges
It's Not Just a Boulder, It's a Rock
100
This material property describes the ratio of normal stress to normal strain within the linear-elastic range.
What is modulus of elasticity? (Youngs Modulus)
100
This is the tallest building in the world.
What is the Burj Khalifa?
100
This type of load includes the permanent weight of a building's structural components, such as beams, columns, floors, and walls.
Dead Load
100
Completed in 1883, this New York City bridge connects Manhattan and Brooklyn and features massive stone towers and suspension cables.
What is the Brooklyn Bridge?
100
These natural fractures in rock can create weak surfaces where blocks may slide or topple.
What are joints?(Disconunities)
200
This is the internal force per unit area that develops in a material under loading.
What is stress?
200
Completed in 1931, this Art Deco skyscraper became a symbol of New York City and was once the world's tallest building.
What is the Empire State Building?
200
The maxium moment occurs at this location:
What is the fixed support/end?
200
Popular among bikers, this beautiful concrete bridge is located along California's Pacific Coast Highway.
What is Bixby Creek Bridge?
200
These steel reinforcement elements are drilled and anchored into a rock mass to improve its stability.
What are rock bolts?
300
This property of structural steel represents the stress at which the material begins to deform permanently
What is yield strength?
300
This 508-meter Taiwanese skyscraper uses a massive tuned mass damper to reduce building motion caused by wind and earthquakes.
What is Taipei 101?
300
This equation relates pressure, velocity, and elevation along a streamline for ideal steady flow.
What is Bernoulli's equation?
300
This famous highway bridge runs over gorgeous water in the Florida Keys.
What is the Seven Mile Bridge?
300
This soil-related failure can occur when saturated soil loses much of its strength during earthquake shaking and behaves more like a liquid
What is liquefaction?
400
This stress strain diagram likely describes this material:
What is concrete?
400
Originally called the Sears Tower, this Chicago skyscraper helped popularize the bundled-tube structural system developed by engineer Fazlur Rahman Khan.
What is the Willis Tower?
400
According to Terzaghi's principle for saturated soil, effective stress equals total stress minus this quantity.
What is pore-water pressure?
400
This famous suspension bridge in Tokyo, Japan, spans Tokyo Bay and connects the main city with the Odaiba waterfront, lighting up in rainbow colors on special occasions.
What is the Rainbow Bridge?
400
This describes the ability of soil to support foundation loads without unacceptable shear failure.
What is bearing capacity?
500
These diagonal cracks near supports can indicate this type of failure in a reinforced concrete beam.
What is shear failure?
500
These twin skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, are connected by a skybridge and feature a distinctive geometric design inspired by Islamic art.
What are the Petronas Towers?
500
These two points on Mohr’s Circle represent the maximum and minimum normal stresses, where the shear stress is zero.
What are the principal stresses?
500
Inspired by the structure of DNA, the Helix Bridge features a distinctive double-helix design and can be visited in this country.
What is Singapore?
500
These wire-mesh containers are filled with rocks and stacked to form flexible retaining structures that help control erosion, stabilize slopes, and retain soil.
What are gabion baskets?