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Nov 27, 2024
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AE 200 - Statics4 lecture hours 0 lab hours 4 credits
Course Description
Statics is a study of force systems acting on rigid bodies not in motion. The analysis includes forces acting in and on beams, trusses and frames in equilibrium. Topical content includes 2-D and 3-D systems, free body diagrams, pulley systems, friction, centroids and moments of inertia. Analysis includes both scalar and vector methods. (prereq: MA 137 ) (coreq: PH 2011 )
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Prepare free body diagrams and apply the equations of static equilibrium to particles and rigid bodies
- Analyze statically determinate trusses
- Calculate reactions and internal forces in statically determinate beams, demonstrate the variation of shear and moment with diagrams
- Calculate reactions and hinge forces for statically determinate frames
- Determine the location of an area’s centroid
- Solve problems involving friction
Prerequisites by Topic
- Meaning of scalar and vector values
- Basic concepts of trigonometry and calculus
Course Topics
- Introduction to statics, scalar and vector values (1 class)
- Force systems, magnitude, direction, and component (3 class)
- Equilibrium of particles in 2-D and 3-D, free body diagrams (3 classes)
- Moment, couple (4 classes)
- Equilibrium of rigid bodies (7 classes)
- Areas, volumes, centroids, and distributed loads (3 classes)
- Trusses: zero force members, method of joints, method of sections (4 classes)
- Frames and machines (4 classes)
- Beams, reactions, shear and moment equations, and shear and moment diagrams (5 classes)
- Friction (3 classes)
- Tests (3 classes)
Coordinator
Douglas Stahl
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