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Introduction to solid and structural mechanics: analysis of statically determinate structures; stress and strain; behaviour of beams and columns; analysis of deformations; torsion.
Subject to approval of the Dean of Engineering and Forestry
ENCI230, ENCI234
Please note that the 2026 timetable has not been finalised.
Scheduled days and times will be confirmed, following review, on 15th October.
Students must attend one activity from each section.
Beer, Johnston, Dewolf and Mazurek; Mechanics of Materials ; 7th; McGraw Hill, 2014.
Generative AI use in this course It is not practical to regulate the use of Generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT) for internal assessments on this course – weekly homework and quiz assignments. Students are allowed to use these tools in whichever manner they see fit. However, you should be aware of the risks, which are described below.Research clearly shows that the unrestricted use of ChatGPT by students during mathematical education leads to decreased performance on external assessment (which happens to comprise most of your grade in this course). For instance, this study showed a 17% reduction in test performance, more than three grade points.The primary mechanisms leading to adverse outcomes appear to be (1) shallow learning, where AI prevents you spending sufficient time with the material to obtain a deep understanding of it, and (2) AI dependency, where overuse of the tool leads to an inability to apply methods or think critically once it is taken away.If you intend to use Generative AI on this course, consider prompting with some basic guardrails to prevent the above impacts on your learning:“You are a math tutor helping me with a homework problem. Please suggest one (and only one) next step for me to consider on the following problem. Don’t complete the problem for me. **paste your problem**.”“You are a coding tutor helping me with a homework problem. Here is some code I have written and the error that I am getting. Please give me some hints about how I can fix this. Do not give me the corrected code though. **paste your code and error message**.”Even with the guardrails, a helpful Generative AI will frequently just give you the solution to a problem, cheating you of the opportunity to learn it yourself.
Lab assignments must be submitted to the applicable assignment drop box on LEARN by 5.00 pm, three weeks after the allocated laboratory section. Late submissions will incur a 20% penalty per day late. Further instructions for the lab assignment are available on LEARN and on the provided lab assignment sheet.
Domestic fee $1,190.00
International fee $6,488.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
For further information see Civil and Environmental Engineering .