Engineering Mechanics: Statics
Forces, moments and equilibrium of particles, rigid bodies, trusses and frames; centroids, distributed loads, beams, cables, friction and section properties.
ENGG-130 Year 1 3 credits 12 lessons · 7 h 34 min
Offered by HSM University · Engineering Core
This is the Canadian version of this course. See the American version.
What you'll learn
- Resolve forces into components and find resultants in two and three dimensions
- Draw free-body diagrams and apply equilibrium equations to particles and rigid bodies
- Calculate moments of forces and couples, and reduce force systems to simpler equivalents
- Find support reactions for beams, booms and frames, and judge statical determinacy
- Find member forces in trusses by the method of joints and method of sections
- Locate centroids and centres of gravity of composite areas and bodies
- Replace distributed loads and fluid pressures by resultant forces
- Draw shear and bending moment diagrams for beams
- Find tensions and sags in cables under concentrated, uniform and self-weight loads
- Solve equilibrium problems involving dry friction, wedges, screws and belts
- Calculate second moments of area and explain their role in bending and buckling
- Combine statics methods to check real structures and lifting operations
Course content
12 lessons · 7 h 34 min total · final exam
- 1 Forces and vectors 45 min · quiz
- 2 Equilibrium of a particle 40 min · quiz
- 3 Moments and couples 46 min · quiz
- 4 Rigid-body equilibrium 41 min · quiz
- 5 Trusses 39 min · quiz
- 6 Centroids and centres of gravity 39 min · quiz
- 7 Distributed loads and fluid pressure 42 min · quiz
- 8 Internal forces: shear and bending moment diagrams 32 min · quiz
- 9 Cables 31 min · quiz
- 10 Friction 35 min · quiz
- 11 Moments of inertia of areas 34 min · quiz
- 12 Case studies and design project 30 min · quiz
- E Final exam 20 questions
Requirements
Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.
Description
Forces, moments and equilibrium of particles, rigid bodies, trusses and frames; centroids, distributed loads, beams, cables, friction and section properties.
Part of the Engineering stream, typically taken in year 1.