Statics:, Shear Force & Bending Moment Diagrams, Stress / Strain Relationships, Deflection of Elastic Structures, Bending and Shear Stresses in Beams, Shafts in Torsion, Power Transmission. Dynamics: Undamped Free Vibrations, Viscous Damped Free Vibrations, Kinematics of particles, Energy Methods.

1) SOLVE A RANGE OF STATISTICS, DYNAMICS AND/OR KINEMATICS PROBLEMS AND MAKE USE OF THE UNDERLYING CONCEPTS AND PRINCIPLES
Enquiry
Knowledge & Understanding

2) INTERPRET QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE DATA RELATING TO PRACTICAL WORK AND COMMUNICATE THE RESULTS OF THE WORK BY WRITTEN REPORTS, INCORPORATING STRUCTURED COHERENT ARGUMENT
Application

Engineering Mechanics lab resources for statics and dynamics

Prior study of Fundamentals of Engineering Mechanics or equivalent.

A 1 hour online examination weighted at 50% assessing learning outcome 1 and 2.

1 Assignment weighted at 50% overall assessing learning outcome 2.

Learning on all aspects of the contents will be faciltated via a Virtual Learning Environment.

Practical and analytical assignments using laboratory-based work.

Problem solving and student-centred learning.

An Introduction to Engineering Mechanics, D Reid, Palgrave, 2000, ISBN: 0333949218

Mechanics of Engineering Materials, PP Behham et al, Longman, 1996, ISBN: 0582251648

Statics and Mechanics of Materials, F Beer, McGraw-Hill New York, 2011, ISBN: 0-07-338015-6, 978-0-07-338015-5

Statics and Mechanics of Materials, R C Hibbeler, Pearson NY, , 2016, ISSBN: 0-13-438259-5