BHARATHIYAR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING&TECHNOLOGY

KARAIKAL
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
COURSE PLAN
SUBJECT: Engineering Mechanics
CLASS: I B. Tech
FACULTY NAME: P.Jayakumar
UNIT

LECTURE TOPICS

YEAR:
ODD / SEMESTER
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FUNDAMENTAL OF MECHANICS Basic Concepts Force System and Equilibrium

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Definition of Force, Moment and Couple

Principle of Transmissibility, Varignons theorem
Resultant of force system
Concurrent Coplanar forces
Non Concurrent Coplanar forces
Definition of rigid body and Degrees of freedom
Condition of static Equilibrium
Condition of static Equilibrium for coplanar force system
Stability of equilibrium
Concept of free body diagrams
Applications in solving the problems on static equilibrium of bodies
PLANE TRUSSES AND FRICTION
Introduction, Types of supports and reaction
Types of loads
Analysis of Trusses
Method of joints and sections
Friction Introduction, Static dry friction
Simple contact friction problems
Simple contact friction problems ladders
Simple contact friction problems wedges
Simple contact friction problems screws
Simple contact friction problems belt friction
Introduction to principle of virtual work
PROPERTIES OF SURFACES
Properties of sections area
Properties of sections centroids of lines
Areas and volumes
Moment of area
Moment of inertia
Product moment of inertia
Polar moment of inertia
Radius of gyration
Mass moment of inertia

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KINEMATICS AND KINETICS OF PARTICLES

Rectilinear motion
Curve linear motion
Relative motion
Equation of motion
DAlemberts principle
Work, Power
Energy and Efficiency
Conservative forces and principle of conservation of energy
Impulse momentum
Impact Direct central impact
Impact oblique central impact
KINEMATICS AND KINETICS OF RIGID BODIES
Plane motion
Absolute motion
Relative motion
Translating axes
Rotating axes
Work and energy
Impulse
Momentum

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ASSIGNMENTS
Title of the assignments
Problems on static equilibrium of bodies
Simple contact friction problems
Problems on polar moment of inertia
Problems on impulse, momentum, impact
Problems on work, energy, impulse and momentum
TEXT BOOKS
AUTHOR

S. No. TITLE OF THE BOOK

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Engineering Mechanics Rajasekaran .S & Sankarasubramanian .G
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Engineering Mechanics Natesan .S.C.
REFERENCES
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Statics
Meriam .J.L.
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Dynamics
Meriam .J.L.
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Engineering mechanics Natarajan .K.V.

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PUBLISHER
Vikas Publishing House P Ltd
Umesh Publications
John Wiley, 2002
John Wiley, 2002
Dhanalakshmi Publishers

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