SYLLABUS INTRO OF MECHANICS.
BASIC ENGINEERING MECHANICS
Course Outcomes: Through this course, students should be able to
• Understand and analyze forces, moments and their applications in real life situations.
• Describe the static equilibrium of particles with Free body diagram.
• Analyze the concepts of moment of inertia and its application in real life situations
• Formulate equations of motion for the rigid body using D'Alembert principle.
Unit I
Introduction to Mechanics: Basic concepts, System of forces, Coplanar Concurrent Forces, Components in 2-D Plane-Resultant-Moment of Forces and its Applications, Couples and Resultant of Force System, Equilibrium of System of forces, Free body diagrams, Equations of Equilibrium of Co-planar Systems
Unit II
Friction: Introduction to friction, Types of friction, Limiting friction, Angle of friction, Laws of Friction, Static and Dynamic friction, Motion of bodies.
Unit III
Centroid and Moment of Inertia: Centroids of areas and lines, Centroids of composite plates and wires, First moments of areas and lines, Moment of inertia of plane sections, Theorems of the moment of inertia, Center of gravity, Moment of inertia of standard and composite sections, Mass moment of inertia of thin plates
Unit IV
Analysis of structures: Introduction to trusses, Definition of trusses, Simple trusses, Analysis of truss by the method of joint, Analysis of truss by the method of the section.
Unit V
Introduction to Dynamics: Basic terms, general principles in dynamics, Types of motion, Rectilinear motion, Plane curvilinear motion.
Unit VI
Plane Kinematics and Kinetics of Rigid bodies : D' Alembert's principle and its applications in-plane motion and connected bodies, Work energy principle and its application in the plane motion of connected bodies, Kinetics of rigid body rotation.
Text Books:
1. VECTOR MECHANICS FOR ENGINEERS, STATICS AND DYNAMICS by BEER AND JOHNSTON, MCGRAW HILL EDUCATIONReferences:1. ENGINEERING MECHANICS: STATICS by ANDREW PYTEL | JAAN KIUSALAAS, CENGAGE LEARNING2. ENGINEERING MECHANICS by BASU DEB BHATTACHARYYA, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS3. ENGINEERING MECHANICS - STATICS AND DYNAMICS by R. C. HIBBELER, A. GUPTA, PEARSON
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