CE111 Engineering Mechanics is a 3+1 credit hour course offered to engineering students. The course introduces fundamental concepts of statics and dynamics including forces, moments, equilibrium conditions, kinematics, and properties of rigid bodies. The course objectives are to teach strength of materials fundamentals and how to select appropriate material strengths for civil engineering applications. Topics covered include vectors, equilibrium, friction, rectilinear motion, and experiments related to these concepts.
CE111 Engineering Mechanics is a 3+1 credit hour course offered to engineering students. The course introduces fundamental concepts of statics and dynamics including forces, moments, equilibrium conditions, kinematics, and properties of rigid bodies. The course objectives are to teach strength of materials fundamentals and how to select appropriate material strengths for civil engineering applications. Topics covered include vectors, equilibrium, friction, rectilinear motion, and experiments related to these concepts.
CE111 Engineering Mechanics is a 3+1 credit hour course offered to engineering students. The course introduces fundamental concepts of statics and dynamics including forces, moments, equilibrium conditions, kinematics, and properties of rigid bodies. The course objectives are to teach strength of materials fundamentals and how to select appropriate material strengths for civil engineering applications. Topics covered include vectors, equilibrium, friction, rectilinear motion, and experiments related to these concepts.
CE111 Engineering Mechanics is a 3+1 credit hour course offered to engineering students. The course introduces fundamental concepts of statics and dynamics including forces, moments, equilibrium conditions, kinematics, and properties of rigid bodies. The course objectives are to teach strength of materials fundamentals and how to select appropriate material strengths for civil engineering applications. Topics covered include vectors, equilibrium, friction, rectilinear motion, and experiments related to these concepts.
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Course Code CE111
Course Title Engineering Mechanics
Credit Hours 3+1 Contact Hr 3+3 Pre-Requisite MT101 Text Books Hibbeler, R. C. Engineering Mechanics- Statics and Dynamics, Prentice Hall. (10th Edition), 2003 Engineering Mechanics, Vol-1 (statics)By J.L. Meriam and L.G. Kraige, 7th Edition. Reference Books Engineering Mechanics-Statics And Dynamics By R.C. Hibbeler, 12th Edition Objective of Course To enable students to learn fundamentals regarding strength of materials. To enhance skills of utilizing material of appropriate strength for civil engineering application. Course Outline Basic Concepts: Concepts of space, time, mass, velocity, acceleration and force. Scalar and vector quantities, Newton's laws of motion, Law of gravitation. System of Forces: Resultant and resolution of co-planer forces using parallelogram, triangle & polygon law and funicular polygon. Simple cases of resultant and resolution of forces in space, Conditions of equilibrium of co-planar forces, analytical and graphical formulations. Equilibrium of Rigid Bodies: Free body concept, conditions of support and attachment to other bodies, Support Reactions under different types of loading, Introduction to shear force and bending moment diagrams. Degree of restraint and static determinacy. Statically determinate problems especially of civil engineering importance, Equilibrium of two-force and three- force bodies. Kinematics: Work, energy and power. Virtual work formulation of equilibrium of coplanar force. Potential energy, energy criterion for equilibrium, stability of equilibrium, application to simple cases. Rigid Bodies: Geometrical properties of plane areas, first moment of area, centroid, second moment of area, principal axes, polar second moment of area and radius of gyration. Friction: Coulomb's theory of friction. Problems involving friction on flat and curved surfaces. Application of Principles of Dynamics: Rectilinear and curvilinear motion, Newtons equation of motion, Dynamic equilibrium Introduction to practical use of the above principles and properties. Lab Outline: The Design work and/or experiments related to above mentioned outline shall be covered in the Laboratory/Design class.