Course Name STATICS OF RIGID BODIES

Course A basic Engineering science course of solid mechanics dealing with bodies that
Description remain or remain at rest. It is designed to provide fundamental concepts about
forces, moments and couples and their systems. The concept of resultants and
equilibrium of forces and moments is utilized to enable solutions of statistically
determinate problems.
Number of 3 units lecture
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Course Outline 1. Fundamental and Concepts
1.1. Force and their Characteristics
1.2. External and Internal effects of Forces
1.3. Force Systems; concurrent, non—concurrent, parallel, non-concurrent,
non-parallel; coplanar and spatial systems
1.4. Components of a Force, resolution of forces into planar and spatial
components
1.5. Moments of a Force
1.6. Vector Analysis; addition, subtraction and multiplication of vectors
2. Resultant of Force Systems
2.1. Resultant of Coplanar Force Systems
2.2. The couple and its characteristics
2.3. Resultant of Spatial Force Systems
3. Equilibrium
3.1. Free Body Diagrams
3.2. Equation of Equilibrium for a Coplanar Concurrent Force System
3.3. Equilibrium of Bodies acted upon my two to three forces
3.4. Equilibrium of Bodies acted upon by coplanar non-concurrent force
system
3.5. Equilibrium of Bodies acted upon by Spatial concurrent force system
3.6. Equilibrium of Bodies acted upon by Spatial parallel force system
3.7. Equilibrium of Bodies acted upon by Spatial non-concurrent force
system
4. Analysis of Structures
4.1. Types of Elementary Structures
4.2. Nature of Sports and their reactions
4.3. Structural Stability/ instability
4.4. Static Indeterminacy of Structures-- external and internal
4.5. Analysis of Plane Trusses; Method of Joints, Methods of Sections
4.6. Analysis of pin-jointed frames—method of members
5. Friction
5.1. Dry Friction and coefficient of Friction
5.2. Angle of Friction
5.3. Application of Friction in machine elements—wedge, square-threaded
screws, belt-friction
5.4. Equilibrium of forces involving friction
6. Centroids and Centers of Gravity
6.1. Center of Gravity of a two-dimensional body; flat plate
6.2. Determination of centroids by Integration
6.3. Centroids of Composite bodies-- approximation
7. Moment of Inertia; Product of Inertia
7.1. Moment of Inertia
7.2. Area Moment of Inertia by Integration
7.3. Transfer Formula for Moment of Inertia
7.4. Polar Moment of Inertia
7.5. Radius of Gyration
7.6. Moment of Inertia for composite sections
7.7. Product of inertia
7.8. Transfer Formula for Product of Inertia