Catalog Course
Description:
Analysis of force and moment systems for
static equilibrium of trusses, frames, beams, cables and machines; friction
forces and friction machines; hydrostatic forces; first and second area and
mass moments and centers of gravity; potential energy and virtual work,
buoyancy and floating-body stability including metacentric height concepts.
Instructors:
Dr. Y. Yong
(Statics:3 hours) & P. Ananthakrishnan (Buoyancy:1 hour)
Office:
218 & 176 Engineering Building (Bldg. 36),
email:
yong@oe.fau.edu &
ananth@oe.fau.edu
Class Room:
OE, Room 162 (OE162)
Class Hours:
M W F 10:30 - 12:05 p.m.
Office Hours:
Prerequisites:
MAC 2313; PHY 2048, 2048L; Co-requisite: EGS 1111
Text Book:
Grade Distribution:
Course Outline:
Equilibrium of a particle; free-body diagram; analysis of co-planar
and three-dimensional force systems.
Resultant of forces; moment of forces and couple; equivalent system;
reduction of distributed loading.
Equilibrium of a rigid body; equations of rigid-body equilibrium;
analysis of equilibrium in two- and three-dimensions.
Analysis of trusses and frames; method of joints;
elementary structural analysis; cables.
Friction; modeling of dry friction; frictional forces in belts,
wedges etc.
Center of gravity and centroid; center of gravity of sytem of
particles, a body and composite bodies; theorems of Pappus and Guldinus.
Moments of inertia; parallel-axis theorem; second moments of
composite areas; product of inertia; mass moment of inertia.
Hydrostatic pressure; hydrostatic forces on plane
and curved
surfaces; hydrostatic force on a body; buoyancy; Archimedes principle;
metacenter; stability of floating and submerged bodies.
Engineering Mechanics - Statics by R. C. Hibbeler, Prentice-Hall.
1. Homework
2. Tests
3. Final Examination
Review of Newton's laws of motion; scalars and vectors; force vectors;
addition, dot and cross products of vectors.
Updated: 14/May/00