JOSE MARIA COLLEGE

Philippine-Japan Friendship Highway, Sasa, Davao City

COLLEGE DEPARTMENT
COURSE OUTLINE

I. Course: BES 213

II. Course Title: STATIC OF RIGID BODIES

III. Course Description: A basic engineering science course of solid mechanics

dealing with bodies that are 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 solution of statically determinate problems.

IV. Credit Units: 3 units lecture

V. Course Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, the students will:
1. Understand the concepts of forces and moments of forces;
2. Apply the principles of static equilibrium from the knowledge of resultants of
forces and moments.
3. Relate the course to other engineering situations that involve the concepts of
forces and moments of forces.

VI. Course Coverage:

PRELIM

1. Fundamental 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 force systems
1.4 Components of a force; resolution of forces into planar and spatial
components
1.5 Moment of a force
1.6 Vector analysis; addition, subtraction and multiplication of vectors

2. Resultants of force systems

2.1 Resultant of coplanar force systems
2.2 The couple and its characteristics
2.3 Resultant of spatial force systems

MIDTERM
3. Equilibrium
3.1 Free-body diagrams
3.2 Equations 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

PREFINALS
4. Analysis of Structures
4.1 Types of elementary structures
4.2 Nature of supports 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, method 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 – wedges, 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

FINALS
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

VII. Grading System:

Criteria for each grading system:

 Project/ Research - 20%

 Assignments - 5%
 Quizzes - 30%
 Periodical Exam - 45%
Total - 100%

VIII. Requirements:
- Notebook
- Calculator
IX. References:
1. Engineering Mechanics Statics & Dynamics, third Edition by Bedford &
Fowler
2. Hibbeler Engineering Mechanics Statics Study pack by R.C. Hibbeler

Prepared by:

ROLDAN G. SUAZO
College Instructor