ENGR102-13S2 (C) Semester Two 2013

Engineering Mechanics and Materials

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 8 July 2013
End Date: Sunday, 10 November 2013
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 21 July 2013
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 6 October 2013

Description

A course for students advancing in Engineering programmes that requires in-depth analysis of components and structures, ENGR102 reinforces concepts of free-body diagrams and the mechanics of real life applications (both statics and dynamics).

A course for students advancing in Engineering programmes that requires in-depth analysis of components and structures, ENGR102 reinforces concepts of free-body diagrams and the mechanics of real life applications (both statics and dynamics).


Summary of the Course Content

The topics covered in this course are:

• Rigid body forces in 1and 2D
• Equilibrium of a rigid body
• Distributed forces, centroids
• Analysis of trusses, frames
• 3D statics and vector operations
• Introduction to engineering materials
• Concepts of stress and strain
• simple kinematics of particles and of rigid bodies
• simple dynamics of a particle, of a system of particles, and rigid bodies
• mass moments of inertia of rigid bodies
• derivation of equations of motion via Newton’s 2nd Law
• principles of work, impact, kinetic and potential energies

Learning Outcomes

  • Understanding (in simple, basic terms) what it means to codify real-life observations (relating to statics, strength of materials, dynamics) with the help of mathematic-mechanical expressions.

    Students will:

  • have developed and be able to demonstrate an understanding of the forces, moments and couples that act on rigid bodies
  • have developed and be able to demonstrate the ability to analyse the forces, moments and couples of trusses, frames and machines
  • have developed and be able to demonstrate the application of vector methods to the analysis of statics of rigid bodies.
  • have developed basic skills in kinematics, mass distribution of rigid bodies and dynamics, as well as have gained understanding of methods in classical mechanics
  • have developed and be able to demonstrate basic skills to derive and to analyse the equations of motion for simple structures
  • have developed and be able to demonstrate writing and associated communication skills.

Prerequisites

Co-requisites

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Charles Fleischmann

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
materials and dynamics test 37%
Homework 10%
Laboratories 5%
Quizzes 10%
Statics Test 38%


Homework & Tutorials:
There is one homework question set at each lecture a total of 4 questions per week.  Homework is due at the end of your tutorial session the following week.  Working for the question must be written out on A4 sheets no workings shown equals zero marks for that question.  Homework is to be brought to your tutorial and handed in by the end of the tutorial session.  During the session the tutor may provide assistance with the homework.  Do not arrive at the tutorial without all of the homework problems attempted and at least partly completed.  The tutorial time is an opportunity to have your homework questions answered, you are not expected to start from scratch and complete the homework within the 50 minutes tutorial period.  Late homework will not be accepted.  Homework will contribute 10% of the total mark for the course.  There end up being 10 weeks that you are expected to hand in the homework so which makes each weeks homework worth 1% of the final grade.  Marks for homework and tests will be posted on Learn.  Students are responsible for checking that they have been correctly recorded and should inform Charley Fleischmann urgently if there is any discrepancy.

Quizzes:
There will be 3 online quizzes as part of this course.  The quizzes are intended to reinforce your learning and to provide for more multifaceted assessment.  The quizzes will be given through Learn and will numerical short answer format.  The quiz will be offered on a day to be announced from 4:00pm to 8:00pm but once you start the quiz you will have 60 minutes to complete it.  While you are taking a quiz, your internet browser will be locked so you cannot search online.  There will be a number of practice quizzes that you may take to insure that you understand the expectations and technology.  Only your two highest quizzes will be counted in your final assessment.  Because we are only counting the best two quizzes, no special considerations will be given for quizzes that are missed for any reason including illness, human error on your part, technology problems, etc.

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Smith, William F; Engineering mechanics and materials ; McGraw-Hill Australia, 2011.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $808.00

International fee $4,550.00

* 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 Natural Resources Engineering .

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