MECHANICS DELIVERY

LEVEL 4 S1
Statics: Forces, moments and couples, free body diagrams, equations of equilibrium
Strength of Materials concepts Direct/shear stress and strain, Hooke's Law, Young's, shear and bulk moduli,
Poisson's ratio, stress-stain relations in 2-D
Kinematics: displacement - velocity -acceleration calculations (for linear and rotary systems under constant
acceleration)
Kinetics: Newton's Laws of Motion (for particles subjected to constant forces)
Work, Energy and Power (principles) Potential, kinetic and strain energy
Momentum and Impulse (of linear and rotary systems)

LEVEL4 S2
Shear force & bending moment diagrams
Simple bending theory
Torsion of circular sections
Thin cylinders and spherical shells
Kinematics: Cont.
Kinetics: Cont.
Work, Energy and Power: Cont.
Momentum and Impulse: Cont.

IENG ROUTE CENG ROUTE

LEVEL5 S1 LEVEL5 S1
Elastic Materials/Properties Isotropy, Hooke's law,
elastic moduli, Poisson's ratio
Shear Stress Distribution in beams Equilibrium, shear
forces, shear stresses in rectangular, I and circular
sections, shear centre, aircraft structural applications
Elastic Strain Energy methods Direct loads, load-
displacement plots, suddenly applied loads, strain
energy due to bending, torsion and shear,
Castigliano's theorem, complimentary energy,
deflection of thin curved bars, bending moment,
combined bending and torsion
Torsion Cross section effects, St. Venant model,
torsional modulus, applications in mechanical, civil
and aero- structures