Teaching Methodologies
Pedagogical methods: lectures, critical judgement, exercices and problems, case studies, collaborative work, student-centred teaching that encourages students and lecturers. Students are encouraged to spend a fair amount of time in small groups in which they talk, think and work together. Evaluation: Final exam (2,5 hours).
Learning Results
Objectives: 1. Understand the basic methods of load transfer in structures – tension, compression, bending and shear. 2. Apply the equations of equilibrium to determine the distribution of internal actions in a simple structure by drawing BMDs, SFDs, AFDs, and TMDs. 3. Understand the significance and be able to calculate the geometric properties of structural sections (I, Z, S, J etc). 4. Appreciate the behaviour of structures by analysing structures without numerical calculations. Generic skills: Application of knowledge and understanding; Judgment accomplishment and decision making; Communication; Self-learning. Specific skills: This course will lay the foundation of Newtonian mechanics for students to attain the basic fundamental engineering science that serves as the building blocks for further courses in analysis and design and contribute to the success of students as practicing engineers after graduation.
Program
1. Statics 1.1 Forces and Equilibrium:Scalars and Vectors, Addition of Vectors, Resultant Calculations, Moment of a Force, Conditions of Equilibrium, Free Body Diagrams (2D and 3D), Calculations of Simple External Reactions. 1.2 Structural Analysis of Trusses:Free Body Diagrams and External Reactions Calculation, Analysis of Trusses by Method of Joints and Method of Sections, and Zero Force Members. 1.3 Internal Loadings – Shear Force and Bending Moment Diagrams:Analysis of point loads, uniformly distributed loads, and non-uniformly distributed loads. Internal Actions of Beams: Axial Forces, Shear Forces and Bending Moments. Axial Force, Shear Force and Bending Moment Diagrams. Relationships between loads, shear and bending moments 2. Geometric properties of structural sections Centroid , area and the Moment of Inertia of lines, areas, and composite objects.
Internship(s)
NAO