By the end of the course the successful students are expected to:
• Calculate the magnitude and direction of a resultant force
• Demonstrate the resolution a force into its components along any coordinate axis,
• Construct and solve equations of equilibrium of a point,
• Calculate the moment of a force with respect to any point on a plane,
• Sketch the free-body diagram of a rigid body
• Inspect support conditions and sketch support reactions,
• Construct and solve equations of equilibrium of a rigid body on a plane,
• Calculate support reactions,
• Calculate centroid of areas,
• Calculate and locate the resultant of distributed loads,
• Analyze and calculate internal forces developing in a plane truss system,
• Analyze and calculate the internal forces developing in a beam,
• Calculate and draw axial load, shear and bending moment diagrams for a beam,
• Calculate moment of inertia of a section,
• Calculate normal stresses for axially loaded members,
• Perform calculations of deformation using Hooke’s law,
• Analyze statically indeterminate systems by applying axial deformation compatibility and
Hooke’s law,
• Calculate axial stresses and their distributions in a beam cross-section due to combined effect
of bending moment and axial load,
• Calculate average shear stress in a beam cross-section,
• Perform calculations and draw the distribution of shear stresses in a beam cross-section,
• Calculate the deflection at a specific point along a beam by Moment-Area method,
• Analyze statically indeterminate beams by employing deformation compatibility applying Moment-Area method