Overview
Understanding forces applied to structural elements and static equilibrium concepts is essential for analysis of statically determinate engineering structures including beams, trusses and frames. You will analyse such structures under external forces to create Free-body diagrams, calculate support reactions and determine internal forces acting on the structures. You will be drawing diagrams of Shear Force and Bending Moments after calculating the internal forces.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
There are no requisites for this unit.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2017
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
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You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
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Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Course Evaluation
Textbook is complex.
The textbook is one of the best available on the market. How to use the textbook will be better communicated with students in the first week.
Online study schedule was published with references to the textbook.
Feedback from Course Evaluation
Assignment problems were more complex than examples in the lectures.
It is generally expected that assignment items are slightly complex than the lectures. However, attempt will be made to solve problems of mixed complexities during the lecture.
The assignment expectations were communicated more regularly in the class. Different levels of problems were introduced in the tutorials.
- Analyse two dimensional force systems to determine resultant forces
- Calculate sectional properties such as centre of gravity, centroid and second moment of Inertia of simple structural forms
- Apply static equilibrium concepts to bodies with external forces and moments, create Free-body diagrams and determine support reactions
- Analyse statically determinate structures, including beams, frames and trusses, to calculate internal forces and create Shear-force and Bending-moment diagrams.
- Demonstrate a professional level of communication skills in written work
Learning outcomes are linked to Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competencies and also discipline capabilities. You can find the mapping for this on the Engineering Undergraduate Course website.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
1 - Online Quiz(zes) - 20% | |||||
2 - Written Assessment - 20% | |||||
3 - Written Assessment - 20% | |||||
4 - Examination - 40% |
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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1 - Communication | |||||
2 - Problem Solving | |||||
3 - Critical Thinking | |||||
4 - Information Literacy | |||||
5 - Team Work | |||||
6 - Information Technology Competence | |||||
7 - Cross Cultural Competence | |||||
8 - Ethical practice | |||||
9 - Social Innovation | |||||
10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures |
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
1 - Online Quiz(zes) - 20% | ||||||||||
2 - Written Assessment - 20% | ||||||||||
3 - Written Assessment - 20% | ||||||||||
4 - Examination - 40% |
Textbooks
Engineering Mechanics: STATICS
14th Edition in SI Units (2017)
Authors: R. C. Hibbeler
Pearson
Essex Essex , England
Binding: Paperback
Additional Textbook Information
This text comes value packed with the Study Pack (includes chapter reviews) and Modified MasteringEngineering, at a reduced cost to students. Copies can be purchased at the CQUni Bookshop here: http://bookshop.cqu.edu.au
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
r.sharma@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Chapter
Chapter 1 General Principles
Chapter 2 Force Vectors
Events and Submissions/Topic
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Equilibrium of a Particle and Force System Resultants
Chapter
Chapter 3 Equilibrium of a Particle
Chapter 4 Force System Resultants
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Test 1: Covers Contents from Week 1 and 2
The Test opens on 9:00 AM Monday and closes on 9:00 AM Friday of Week 3.
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Analysis of Trusses: Method of Sections
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Test 2: Covers Contents from Week 3 and 4
The Test opens on 9:00 AM Monday and closes on 9:00 AM Friday of Week 5.Module/Topic
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Test 3: Covers Contents from Week 6 and 7
The Test opens on 9:00 AM Monday and closes on 9:00 AM Friday of Week 8.Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
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Center of Gravity and Centroid
Moment of Inertia
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Chapter 9 Center of Gravity and Centroid
Chapter 10 Moments of Inertia
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Test 4: Covers Contents from Week 9 and 10
The Test opens on 9:00 AM Monday and closes on 9:00 AM Friday of Week 11.Module/Topic
Revision Week II
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1 Online Quiz(zes)
This assessment task consists of four "Progressive Tests", each weighs 5% of your final mark. Each Test consists of 5-10 Numerical questions.
Important Notes:
- Each Test is set for 60 minutes. You have 60 minutes from when you start your attempt to submit your answers.
- If you start but leave a test and come back to it later, your 60 min time may have lapsed and you will be scored zero for that attempt.
- You can attempt the Test up to THREE times within the given time frame as specified in the Schedule. The test will be automatically closed after the end of the given time frame.
- Final mark will be the highest of all the attempts.
- Even though the tests are open for a few days, it is expected that your first attempt would be on the first day.
- The Tests cannot generally be deferred. However, under exceptional circumstances if you have valid reasons to defer the test(s), please contact the Unit Coordinator with documents of proof before the due date. The proof should cover for all the dates that the test/s is/are open.
4
Other
Tests opening and closing details are given on the schedule section.
Immediately after the test.
Full marks allocated to a question will be awarded for each correct answer.
- Analyse two dimensional force systems to determine resultant forces
- Calculate sectional properties such as centre of gravity, centroid and second moment of Inertia of simple structural forms
- Apply static equilibrium concepts to bodies with external forces and moments, create Free-body diagrams and determine support reactions
- Analyse statically determinate structures, including beams, frames and trusses, to calculate internal forces and create Shear-force and Bending-moment diagrams.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Ethical practice
2 Written Assessment
This assessment is designed to strengthen your understanding on Free-Body diagrams, Resolution of Forces, Calculation of Reactions and Truss analysis under different loading and support conditions. Assignment questions can be downloaded from the moodle site.
Week 6 Tuesday (18 Apr 2017) 11:45 pm AEST
Two weeks after the due date
Each solution should have following items:
- Statement of a problem in your own words.
- Drawing of assumed sign Conventions, Free-Body and other diagrams as required for the solution.
- Statement of key information.
- Calculations with detail explanations.
- Final answers with magnitude, unit and direction as appropriate.
Note: If there are more than two errors (drawing, calculation, conceptual or error of any other kinds) in a solution, no marks will be awarded .
- Analyse two dimensional force systems to determine resultant forces
- Calculate sectional properties such as centre of gravity, centroid and second moment of Inertia of simple structural forms
- Apply static equilibrium concepts to bodies with external forces and moments, create Free-body diagrams and determine support reactions
- Analyse statically determinate structures, including beams, frames and trusses, to calculate internal forces and create Shear-force and Bending-moment diagrams.
- Demonstrate a professional level of communication skills in written work
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Ethical practice
3 Written Assessment
This assessment will provide you an opportunity to show your understanding on Calculation of Internal forces and Drawing of Internal Force diagrams and Frictions. Assignment questions can be downloaded from the moodle site.
Week 10 Tuesday (16 May 2017) 11:45 pm AEST
Two weeks after the due date
Each solution should have following items:
- Statement of a problem in your own words.
- Drawing of assumed sign Conventions, Free-Body and other diagrams as required for the solution.
- Statement of key information.
- Calculations with detail explanations.
- Final answers with magnitude, unit and direction as appropriate.
Note: If there are more than two errors (drawing, calculation, conceptual or error of any other kinds) in a solution, no marks will be awarded .
- Analyse two dimensional force systems to determine resultant forces
- Calculate sectional properties such as centre of gravity, centroid and second moment of Inertia of simple structural forms
- Apply static equilibrium concepts to bodies with external forces and moments, create Free-body diagrams and determine support reactions
- Analyse statically determinate structures, including beams, frames and trusses, to calculate internal forces and create Shear-force and Bending-moment diagrams.
- Demonstrate a professional level of communication skills in written work
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Ethical practice
Examination
Dictionary - non-electronic, concise, direct translation only (dictionary must not contain any notes or comments).
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