Lecture# 1
Engineering Mechanics
Dr. Avadhoot Bhosale
Department of Civil Engineering
MIT WPU Pune
Why do we have to study engineering
mechanics?
We are going to be
electrical/electronics/computer
Engineers…
Why engineering mechanics?
Materials-Metallurgical
CSA
Pipeline
Environment
Stress
EE
Safety System
ME Process
Wood River CORE Project
(ConocoPhillips)
Why engineering mechanics?
No engineer can work in isolation of the other branches as
any product requires many engineering branches.
You can be a very good electrical designer but you need the
help of mechanical engineers for designing the motor body,
transformer etc. Engineering Mechanics will help you
understand their work.
Civil/Mechanical/Metallurgy/Ceramic/Bio-technology/Mining
– Mechanics is a foundation
Many specific fields such as strength of structures,
machines, robotics, rocket and space craft design, engines,
fluids, electrical machines, molecular, atomic and
subatomic, vibrations,
Applications of Mechanics
Mandatory requirement
Everyone has to bring their own calculator
(No sharing)
Mobile phone can not be used as calculator
What is Mechanics?
What is Mechanics?
Football Bouncing Wheels rolling
How all these motions happen?
Idealisations of Mechanics !
Basic dimensions and units of mechanics
Primary Units
– Length (m)
– Time (s) SI Units
– Mass (kg)
Secondary Units
– Velocity (m/s)
– Acceleration (m/s2)
– Force (N = kg-m/s2)
– etc..
– etc..
Particle
An object that has a mass but no size is
called a particle
Particle
The idealization of particle is useful in dealing with
the translatory motion of rigid bodies that could
have the size of a car or even a planet
This assumption ceases to be valid when rotation of
the rigid body is also involved.
Space and Plane
Y Y
X
X
Z
Space and Plane
Plane Frame Space Frame
Space and Plane
Syllabus
CE 100 ENGINEERING MECHANICS 4 Credits [3-1-0]
STATICS
• Introduction: Basic Concepts of Force, Moment and Couple
• System of Coplanar forces, Equilibrium of Coplanar force systems,
Free body diagrams and method of solution of engineering problems,
• Centroid, Theorems of Pappus, Moment of Inertia of plane figures,
Polar Moment of Inertia and Product of Inertia
• Internal forces in Members of Trusses (Method of joints, Method of
Sections) and Frames (Method of Members)
• Friction, Coulomb’s Laws for dry friction, Coefficient of friction, Angle of
friction, Belt friction and Screw Jack
• Principle of Virtual Work and application
Syllabus
CE 100 ENGINEERING MECHANICS 4 Credits [3-1-0]
DYNAMICS
• Kinetics of rectilinear motion and curvilinear motion of a
particle - D’Alembert’s principle, linear momentum and
impulse, moment of momentum, work and energy, impact
• Rigid-body Rotation - kinematics of rotation, equation of
motion of a rotating rigid body, D’Alembert’s principle for
rotation, resultant inertia force in rotation, compound
pendulum, angular momentum, energy equations for rotating
bodies
• Plane Motion – kinematics of plane motion, instantaneous
centre of rotation; equations of plane motion of a rigid body
and energy equations for plane motion
Text Book
S. P. Timoshenko, D. H. Young, and J.
V. Rao: Engineering Mechanics,
revised fourth edition, Tata-McGraw
Hill, Special Indian Edition, 2007
System of Forces
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Resultant
— a single force representing the sum of
two or more forces acting on an object
— providing the same total effect of the
original forces
— with larger or smaller magnitude than
the original forces
Equilibrant
—force having same magnitude like resultant but
having opposite directions to make body stable is
called equilibrant
—Resultant and equilibrant are having same
magnitude but opposite in directions
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Moment
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Couple
Couple, in mechanics, pair of equal parallel forces that are opposite
in direction. The only effect of a couple is to produce or prevent the
turning of a body.
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If two forces acting at a point are represented in magnitude and
direction by the two adjacent sides of a triangle taken in order, then
the closing side of the triangle taken in the reversed order represents
the resultant of the forces in magnitude and direction.
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Equilibrium
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Equilibrium
Equilibrium implies the object is at
rest (static) or its center of mass
moves with a constant velocity
(dynamic)
Static Equilibrium example : Book on
table, Ladder leaning against wall, etc.
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Equilibrium Equations
F 0 : Fx 0 Fy 0 Fz 0
M o 0 : M o,x 0 M o,y 0 M o,z 0
Co-planer Concurrent Force System
Co-planer Non-Concurrent Force System
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• The earth exerts a gravitational force on
each of the particles forming a body. These
forces can be replace by a single equivalent
force equal to the weight of the body and
applied at the center of gravity for the
body.
• Center of mass is the point at which whole
mass of the object supposed to be
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• Centroid is geometrical center of an objects.
• Centroid coincides with center of mass when object has uniform density.
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X =1.78 cm, Y = 5 cm X =15 cm, Y = 10.96 cm
X = 50 mm, Y = 94 mm X = 25 mm, Y = 35 mm 99 of 46
Thank You
