Applied Mechanics Supplement POWR 0021

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will learn:

• A.S.M.E. Code Calculations - Cylindrical Components:
• Calculate minimum thickness or maximum allowable working pressure of piping, tubes, drums, and headers;
• Calculate the required thickness or maximum allowable working pressure of a seamless, unsteady dished head;
• Calculate the minimum required thickness or maximum allowable working pressure of unsteady flat heads, covers, and blind flanges;
• Calculate the acceptability of openings in a cylindrical shell, header, or head;
• Calculate the compensation required to reinforce an opening in a cylindrical shell, header, or head.
• A.S.M.E. Code Calculations - Stayed Surfaces, Safety Valves, Furnaces:
• Calculate the required thickness and design pressure for braced and stayed surfaces in pressure vessels and the minimum required cross section area of a stay;
• Calculate the ligament efficiency method for two or more openings in the pressure boundary of a pressure vessel;
• Calculate the required size and capacity of safety valves and safety relief valves;
• Calculate required wall thicknesses of plain circular furnaces, circular flues, and corrugated furnaces.
• Linear Motion:
• Calculate the displacement, velocity, and acceleration of bodies;
• Describe the relationship between mass, force, acceleration and weight;
• Explain inertia and momentum;
• Calculate kinetic energy;
• Calculate potential energy;
• Explain Law of Conversation of Energy;
• Define and calculate indicated power.
• Angular Motion:
• Calculate the angular displacement, angular velocity, and angular acceleration of bodies;
• Define and calculate moment of inertia, radius of gyration and torque;
• Define and calculate kinetic energy of rotation;
• Define work and power;
• Calculate power transmitted by a belt drive;
• Define and calculate centrifugal and centripetal force and acceleration.
• Friction:
• Describe concepts, types and laws of friction;
• Define and calculate the coefficient of friction and applied forces for objects moved on a horizontal surfaces by forces parallel to the inclined plane;
• Define and calculate the coefficient of friction and applied forces for objects moved on a horizontal surfaces by forces not parallel to the inclined plane;
• Define and calculate the applied forces for objects moved on an inclined plane;
• Define and calculate the frictional forces on a screw jack;
• Define and calculate maximum torque on a belt drive.
• Static and Dynamic Forces:
• Define and evaluate forces in terms of moments and couples;
• Define and calculate centroids and first and second moment of areas;
• Define and calculate the different types of stress;
• Define and calculate strain, modulus of elasticity, and Poisson's ratio;
• Define the thermal expansion;
• Define and calculate shear forces and bending moments for simply supported beams and cantilevers;
• Calculate torque and stress;
• Calculate stress in coupling bolts due to torque.
• Fluid Mechanics:
• Describe the basics of fluid mechanics;
• Calculate static pressure;
• Define and calculate thermal expansion of a vessel and its liquid contents;
• Describe flow in open channels;
• Describe flow in a pipe;
• Bernoulli's equation;
• Application of Bernoulli's equation.

Effective as of Fall 2009