421-103 Engineering Statics

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421-103 Engineering Statics
Credit Points	12.5
HECS Band	2
Coordinator	Mr J Styles
Semester	1, repeat 2 (view timetable)
Contact	Forty-eight hours of lectures and tutorials
Subject Description	Topics covered include force systems; resolution of forces including 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; stress, strain, elasticity in one and two dimensions; stress transformation; stress and deflection due to bending and torsion; and indeterminate systems.
Assessment	A 3-hour written examination (70%) and two assignments of not more than 2000 words each (30%).
Prescribed Texts	J L Meriam and L G Kraige, Engineering Statics, Vol 1 - Statics. 4th edition, Wiley, 1992.

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