421-103 Engineering Statics

Credit Points:

When taken from Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering:

7.1

When taken from Civil Engineering (Science), Faculty of Science:

6.25

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Objectives:

Students successfully completing this unit will:

• recognise the way in which simple systems resist forces and moments to which they are subjected;

• be able to simplify a complex force/stress analysis problem down to one that can be analysed;

• express the physical problem in a mathematical or graphical form;

• understand the significance of the solution to the problem of any assumptions made.

Content:

Force systems: resolution of forces; moments of a force; couples; moments of distributed forces. Equilibrium, support systems. Shear force, bending moments in beams. Forces in pin-connected trusses. Equilibrium concepts via virtual work concepts. Stress, strain, elasticity in one and two dimensions. Stress transformation. Stress and deflection due to bending and torsion. Indeterminate systems.

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Prescribed Texts:

• Meriam, J. L. and Kraige, L. G., Engineering Mechanics, Vol 1 - Statics, 3rd ed., Wiley, New York, 1992.