Engineering Mechanics

syllabus for an Engineering Mechanics course:

Unit I: Statics

  • Basic Concepts: Force, moment, couple, equilibrium
  • Free Body Diagrams: Drawing and analyzing
  • Equilibrium of Rigid Bodies: Conditions for equilibrium, applications
  • Structures: Analysis of trusses, frames, and beams
  • Friction: Laws of friction, applications in wedges, screws, and belts

Unit II: Dynamics

  • Kinematics of Particles: Rectilinear and curvilinear motion
  • Kinetics of Particles: Newton’s second law, work-energy principle, impulse-momentum principle
  • Kinematics of Rigid Bodies: Rotation, translation, general plane motion
  • Kinetics of Rigid Bodies: Equations of motion, work-energy, impulse-momentum

Unit III: Mechanical Properties of Materials

  • Stress and Strain: Types, Hooke’s law, stress-strain diagrams
  • Axial Loading: Deformation of bars, thermal stress
  • Torsion: Torsion of circular shafts, power transmission
  • Bending: Shear force and bending moment diagrams, bending stress, shear stress in beams

Unit IV: Structural Analysis

  • Analysis of Beams: Types of loads, supports, and reactions
  • Deflection of Beams: Methods for calculating deflection
  • Columns: Buckling of columns, Euler’s formula

Unit V: Virtual Work and Energy Methods

  • Principle of Virtual Work: Applications to statics
  • Potential Energy and Stability: Energy methods for determining stability

Unit VI: Fluid Mechanics (Basics)

  • Fluid Properties: Density, viscosity, surface tension
  • Fluid Statics: Pressure variation, manometry, forces on submerged surfaces
  • Fluid Dynamics: Continuity equation, Bernoulli’s equation, applications

Practical/Lab Work

  • Experiments: Verification of theoretical concepts through experiments
  • Projects: Application of mechanics principles to real-world problems

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