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Course code: IBS10247o17
Semester: 2017/2018 summer
Name: General Mechanics
Major: Civil Engineering
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 2
ECTS points: 6
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: prof. dr hab. inż. Jan Kempiński
Language of instruction: Polish
The course in English will be available if a minimum of 6 students sign up for a group. If less than 6 students sign up for the group, the course will be available in Polish with the possibility of individual support in English. Contact person dr inż. Małgorzata Meissner

Learning outcomes: Student knows basic arrangements of forces and their possible transformations. Understands rules of construction of static schemes and principles of load assignement; knows equilibrium conditions of flat and spatial force systems; knows methods of determination of inner forces in flat girders like grids, singel-span and multi-span beams and frames.Student knows basic arrangements of forces and their possible transformations. Understands rules of construction of static schemes and principles of load assignement; knows equilibrium conditions of flat and spatial force systems; knows methods of determination of inner forces in flat girders like grids, singel-span and multi-span beams and frames. Student is acknowledged of the friction phenomena. Skills Student is able to determine static schemes of given structures; Can identify statically determinable and over rigid structures; Is able to build equations of equilibrium; can determine reactions and cross-section forces in beam, frame and grid structures.

Competences: Student is aware of the importance of proper structural calculations for safety of their exploitation. Student understands his personal responsibility for accuracy of calculations and its consequences.

Prerequisites: Mathematics, physics.

Course content: Statics beams, frames, grids. Material models in mechanics. Force and its representation. Principles of mechanics. Moment of a static force about a point or axis. Equilibrium of couple of forces. Adding couples of forces. Reduction of force arrangements. Central axis. The wrench. Notion of resultant and equilibrium of force composition. Particular cases of equilibrium and reduction of forces composition. Degrees of freedom of material bodies. Models of bonds and their actions. Active and passive forces. Statically determinable structures. Joints in rod structures. Internal reduction in rod structures (beams, frames, grids). Friction and its implications in engineering.

Recommended literature:  Halliday D., Resnick R., Walker J., Fundamentals Of Physics , John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2004  Ferdinand P. Beer, E. Russell Johnston, John T. Dewolf, David F. Mazurek, Statics and Mechanics of Materials, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2011

Assessment methods: written tests exam

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