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Course code: IBS10247o16
Semester: 2016/2017 summer
Name: Theoretical mechanics
Major: Civil Engineering
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 2
ECTS points: 6
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 28 / 0
Lecturer: prof. dr hab. inż. Jan Kempiński
Language of instruction: Polish


Learning outcomes: Knowledge 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 overrigid 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: 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:  Kempiński J., Zakrzewski W.: Mechanika Budowli. Wyd. A R. we Wrocławiu, 2001.  Leyko J.: Mechanika ogólna, t. 1, Statyka i kinematyka. PWN, Warszawa 1996.  Misiak J.: Mechanika techniczna, t. 1, Statyka i wytrzymałość materiałów, WN-T, Warszawa 1996.  Pac-Pomarnacka A.: Mechanika ogólna z przykładami obliczeń. Wyd. AR we Wrocławiu, 2004.  Chrobok R., Kempiński J. Przykłady rozwiązań izostatycznych ustrojów prętowych metodą statyczną i kinematyczną. Skrypt Uniwersytetu Przyrodniczego we Wrocławiu, nr 518, 1-102, Wrocław 2007.  Halliday D., Resnick R., Walker J. Podstawy fizyki. Tom 1. Wyd. Naukowe PWN, Warszawa, 2005.  Rubinowicz W., Królikowski W. Mechanika teoretyczna. PWN, Warszawa, 1967.

Assessment methods: Completion of two projects, 4 colloquia, written exam.

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