ESM 2214: Statics & Mech Matls

Fall 2009
Index: 92872

Section: T R 8:00 am - 9:15 am
Instructor: Duke

Course objectives:
Having successfully completed this course, the student will be able to:

• Define force, moment and couple, and calculate components of forces.
• Draw free-body diagrams, and determine support forces using the equations of equilibrium.
• Determine equivalent force systems.
• Find centroids.
• Calculate stresses, strains, and deformations of bars that are axially loaded or subjected to bending loads.
• Determine principal stresses for bars subjected to combined loading.

Corequisites:
This course requires a basic knowledge of multivariable calculus and vector geometry (MATH 2224).