Basics of Civil Engineering Mechanics - Beginner Course

Students can able to learn the basic civil engineering concepts like

1. SCOPE OF CIVIL ENGINEERING: Housing, Roads, Bridges and Dams, Basic Introduction of Building Materials – cement, bricks/blocks, aggregate(s), timber, steel, composites, Components of a structure - Substructure, Super structure and Finishes.

2. CO-PLANAR CONCURRENT FORCES:Principle of statics, Particle, continuum, Rigid body, Force and its characteristics, Types of forces and classification of force systems, Principle of physical independence of forces, Principle of transmissible of forces, Principle of superposition of forces, Composition of forces - Definition of Resultant; Composition of co-planar concurrent force system, Parallelogram law of forces, Resolution of forces.

3. MOMENT OF FORCE: Moment of a force, Couple, Characteristics of couples, Varignon’s theorem of moments, Composition of co-planar - non-concurrent force system, Equivalent force - couple system, Numerical problems on composition of co-planar non-concurrent force systems.

4. EQUILIBRIUM OF FORCES: Equilibrium of concurrent, parallel and general forces in a plane, equilibrium of three forces in a plane, Definition of equilibrium, Lami's theorem; Resultant and equilibrium of concurrent and parallel forces in space, Numerical problems on equilibrium of co-planar – concurrent and non-concurrent force systems.

5. CO-PLANAR NON-CONCURRENT FORCES: Introduction to beams, Types of loads and supports, Support reactions, statically determinate beams with point load (normal and inclined) and uniformly distributed/varying loads, Numerical problems.

6. FRICTION: Friction-static friction, Laws of friction, Limiting friction, Angle of friction, angle of repose, Impending motion on horizontal and inclined planes, Ladder and block friction, Numerical problems.

7. CENTROID: Centroid of line and area, Centroid of regular figures, Locating the centroid of triangle, semicircle, quadrant of a circle and sector of a circle using method of integration, Centroid of composite sections; Numerical problems.

8. MOMENT OF INERTIA: Second moment of area, polar moment of inertia, Radius of gyration, Perpendicular and Parallel axis theorems, Moment of Inertia of rectangular, circular and triangular areas from method of integration, composite sections, Numerical problems.