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Fundamentals of Structural Mechanics
FAST-BD001Acad. year: 2017/2018
Student will be able to solve reactions and internal forces of the plane statically determinate structures, to design centroid and second order moments of cross-section, solve simple and compound stresses and to compute strain in a section of a bar, to find its material and dimensions, to calculate deformations during bending.
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2. General system of forces in plane. Static models of plane structures, constrains and supports, types of loading, reactions.
3. Components of internal forces in a straight bar with plane loading, diagrams of internal forces and moments.
4. Differential relations between loads, shear forces and bending moments, differential conditions of equilibrium.
5. Plane beams and frames with rectangular broken centre line, calculation of reactions in constraints, diagrams of internal forces.
6. Plane skew beam, continuous load of skew beam, plane beam with broken centre line and skew bars, reactions and diagrams of internal forces and moments.
7. Static analysis of plane systems of bodies composed of mass points and of rigid plates, static and kinematic determination. General method of solution of plane systems.
8. Three-hinged broken beam without and with a tie bar, Gerber’s beam, reactions and internal forces diagrams.
9. Quadratic and deviation moments of inertia, Steiner’s theorem, principal axes of inertia of cross-sections, radius of inertia.
10. Plane bar systems, static and kinematic determination. Calculation of axial forces. The off-joints loads.
11. Space systems of forces. Constraints and reactions of rigid body in space, calculation of reactions in constraints.
12. Straight bar with space loading, space cantilever beam with rectangular broken centre line, reactions and diagrams of internal forces and moments.
13. Space beam with broken centre line, reactions, diagrams of internal forces and moments.
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- Programme B-P-C-MI (N) Bachelor's
branch MI , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
- Programme B-P-C-SI Bachelor's
branch VS , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
- Programme B-P-E-SI Bachelor's
branch VS , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
- Programme B-K-C-SI Bachelor's
branch VS , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory