337-0402 – Statics (STATM)
| Gurantor department | Department of Mechanics |
| Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Jiří Podešva, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
To define the basic laws and rules of the force operating, the equivalent force, the equilibrium of forces, the free body diagram.
To explain the basic principles of the force operating and the free body diagram constructing.
To apply these tools for the solution of the practical technical problems.
To analyze the mechanical structure behavior from the force transmision point of view.
To categorize the force systems, the body systems from the motion and force transmision point of view.
To predict the mechanical system behavior depending on its structure.
Teaching methods
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Tutorials
Summary
General principles, fundamental quantities of mechanics. Forces and their
characteristics, Moments, Force systems – 2D, 3D, equilibration, congruence.
Centre of mass, centre of gravity – lines, areas, volumes. Equilibrium of rigid
body, the main form of links – in area and space. System of volumes. Principle
of free body diagrams. Internal forces in structural members. Trusses –
methods of solution. Friction, characteristic of coulomb friction, analysis of
systems involving friction. Stability- the main definition. The basic form of
analytical statics.
Compulsory literature:
1. Riley, William Franklin, Sturges, Leroy D. : Engineering mechanics:
Statics, John Wiley and Sons, inc., New York, 1993
ISBN 0 - 471 - 51241 - 9
Recommended literature:
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.