Mechanics 1

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Unit 1, Mechanics of Materials: On completion of this unit, students should be able to understand elastic and inelastic behaviour; and determine stresses and deformations in common structural elements.

Topics covered include two-dimensional stress and strain analysis; principal values; Mohr's circle; failure criteria; inelastic behaviour; basic properties of beams, symmetric bending; flexure by McAulay's method, superposition, indeterminacy; torsion of round bars; stresses in cylindrical pressure vessels; and the compressive behaviour of short and long columns.

Unit 2, Dynamics of Machines: On completion of this unit students should understand principles of the two-dimensional mechanics of a rigid body. Be able to carry out dynamic analysis of planar mechanical system.

Topics covered include dynamics of a particle in terms of inertial frames (work, kinetic energy, power, equations of motion), plane dynamics of a rigid body (kinetic energy, moments of inertia, equations of motion), dynamics of plane mechanisms (constraints, mobility, degrees of freedom, equations of motion).

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• ability to apply knowledge of basic science and engineering fundamentals

• in-depth technical competence in at least one engineering discipline

• ability to undertake problem identification, formulation and solution

• expectation of the need to undertake lifelong learning, capacity to do so

• capacity for independent critical thought, rational inquiry and self-directed learning

• profound respect for truth and intellectual integrity, and for the ethics of scholarship