Overview
Principles of Statics (Review); Centre of Gravity, Centroid and Moment of Inertia; Distributed Forces; Stress and Strain; Mechanical Properties of Materials: Ductile/Brittle Materials, Hooke's Law, Poisson's Ratio; Axial load; Torsion; Bending: Shear Force and Bending Moment Diagrams; Stress Concentrations; Transverse Shear; Combined Loadings; Transformation of Stress and Strain: Mohr's Circle; … For more content click the Read More button below.
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Aims
This topic aims to give students an understanding of engineering mechanics and structures.
Learning outcomes
On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:
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Learn how to determine centroids and moment of inertias and how to find resultant of distributed loadings
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Understand concepts of stress, strain and mechanical properties of materials
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Analyse axial, torsional, bending, transverse stresses and their combinations in structures and machine components
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Calculate in-plane stresses and strains, their orientations and transformations through Mohr's circle, and calculate principal stresses and strains
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Develop methods for designing beams to resist both bending and shear loads; prismatic and fully stressed beam designs
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