Course Overview
This course continues with the principles of Applied Mechanics and includes: bending of beam; shearing force and bending moment diagrams for cantilevers, and simple supported beams with concentrated and uniformly distributed loads; stress due to bending; strength and stiffness of shafting; power transmitted by shafts and bolts; direct stress and strain, modulus of elasticity, shear stress and strain, modulus of rigidity; restricted thermal expansion; loads on immersed surfaces, centre of pressure on vertical surfaces, flow of fluid through pipes, and flow through orifices.
Prerequisite(s)
- No prerequisites are required for this course.
Credits
5.0
- Retired
- This course has been retired and is no longer offered. Find other Flexible Learning courses that may interest you.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course, the student will be able to:
- Solve problems to determine conditions of equilibrium for a simply supported beam.
- Solve problems to determine the shear forces and bending moments in a beam.
- Construct shear forces and bending moment diagrams for a loaded beam.
- Solve problems involving the fundamental bending equation.
- Determine the modulus of a beam section.
- Solve problems involving the fundamental torsion equation.
- Solve problems involving the relationship between torque and power.
- Solve problems involving the transmission of power through coupling bolts.
- Solve problems to determine the pressure head of a fluid.
- Solve problems to determine the load of an immersed plane.
- Solve problems to determine the centre of pressure of a hydraulically loaded plate.
- Solve problems involving flow of fluids through valves and pipes.
- Solve problems to determine flow of fluids through orifices.
Effective as of Winter 2011
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