Overview
This unit introduces Newtonian physics concepts governing the behaviour of stationary engineering systems. To determine design parameters, you will study forces applied to two and three-dimensional bodies under the static equilibrium state. You will determine internal forces, calculate support reactions, and develop Free-body, Shear Force and Bending Moments diagrams. You will also calculate sectional properties, including the center of gravity, centroid, and second moment of inertia. Upon completing this unit, you will understand the foundations of engineering statics enabling progress to advanced system/structural analysis and development of sustainable infrastructure
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 2 - 2023
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.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
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
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
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 Student Survey
The unit is well-organised with thorough lecturers and tutorials.
Maintain high-quality lectures and tutorials and unit good organisation in future offerings.
Feedback from Student Survey
Some questions in the textbook do not have worked solutions.
The textbook contains lots of examples of the worked solutions. Students should use the problems at the end of each section for further practice. The final answer to these problems is provided at the end of the textbook. Furthermore, the weekly tutorial questions are selected from these problems and the full solution to these selected problems is available on Moodle.
Feedback from Student Survey
Relate questions in the assessments to real-world problems.
The real-world relevance of different concepts taught in this unit is discussed in the lectures and tutorials wherever applicable. Consider more emphasis on the application of different concepts in the design of the assignments.
- Analyse two and three-dimensional force systems to determine resultant forces
- 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
- Calculate sectional properties such as center of gravity, centroid, and second moment of Inertia of simple structural forms
- Demonstrate a professional level of communication skills in written work.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Online Quiz(zes) - 20% | |||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 20% | |||||
| 3 - Written Assessment - 20% | |||||
| 4 - Online Test - 40% | |||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 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 | |||||
Textbooks
Engineering Mechanics STATICS
Edition: 14 or later (2017 or later)
Authors: R.C. Hibbeler
Pearson
ISBN: 1488689806
Binding: Paperback
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.
h.baji@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Introduction to Statics
Chapter
Chapter 1: General Principles
Chapter 2: Force Vectors
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Equilibrium of a Particle
Chapter
Chapter 3: Equilibrium of a Particle
Chapter 4: Force System Resultants
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Equilibrium of a Rigid Body
Chapter
Chapter 5: Equilibrium of a Rigid Body
Events and Submissions/Topic
Progressive Test #1: The test opens at 9:00 AM Monday of this week and closes at 9:00 PM Monday of next week.
Module/Topic
Force Analysis in 3D
Chapter
Chapter 2: Force Vectors
Chapter 4: Force System Resultants
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Equilibrium in 3D
Chapter
Chapter 3: Equilibrium of a Particle
Chapter 5: Equilibrium of a Rigid Body
Events and Submissions/Topic
Progressive Test #2: The test opens at 9:00 AM Monday of this week and closes at 9:00 PM Monday of next week.
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Analysis of Trusses: Method of Joints and Section
Chapter
Chapter 6: Structural Analysis
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Beams: Internal Forces
Chapter
Chapter 7: Internal Forces
Events and Submissions/Topic
Progressive Test #3: The test opens at 9:00 AM Monday of this week and closes at 9:00 PM Monday of next week.
Assignment 1 Due: Week 7 Monday (28 Aug 2023) 11:59 pm AEST
Module/Topic
Beams: Axial Force, Shear Force and Bending Moment Diagrams
Chapter
Chapter 7: Internal Forces
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Friction
Chapter
Chapter 8: Friction
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Center of Gravity and Centroid
Chapter
Chapter 9: Center of Gravity and Centroid
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Moment of Inertia
Chapter
Chapter 10: Moments of Inertia
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Revision
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
1 Online Quiz(zes)
This assessment task consists of three "Progressive Tests". First, second and third carries 7%, 7%, and 6% marks, respectively. Each test consists of a number of 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 each test up to three (3) 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.
- The 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.
3
Other
Tests opening and closing details are given on the unit schedule.
Immediately after the test completion.
- Full marks allocated to a question will be awarded for each correct answer.
- No penalty for wrong answers.
- Analyse two and three-dimensional force systems to determine resultant forces
- Apply static equilibrium concepts to bodies with external forces and moments, create Free-body diagrams and determine support reactions
2 Written Assessment
The aim of this assignment is to allow the students to demonstrate their understanding of various concepts, theories and processes studied/developed in weeks 1 to 5.
Assignment 1 will be available by end of week 1 through unit Moodle webpage.
Week 7 Monday (28 Aug 2023) 11:59 pm AEST
Week 9 Monday (11 Sept 2023)
Feedback will be returned two weeks after assignment due date.
Each solution should have the following items:
- Accurate drawing of assumed Sign Conventions, Free-Body and other diagrams as required for the solution. [20%]
- Accuracy in Calculations. [80%]
- All the steps should be explained in full detail.
- A single PDF file with clear and readable working should be submitted.
- Analyse two and three-dimensional force systems to determine resultant forces
- Apply static equilibrium concepts to bodies with external forces and moments, create Free-body diagrams and determine support reactions
- Demonstrate a professional level of communication skills in written work.
3 Written Assessment
The aim of this assignment is to allow the students to demonstrate their understanding of various concepts, theories and processes studied/developed in weeks 6 to 9.
Assignment 2 will be available by end of week 6 through unit Moodle webpage.
Week 11 Monday (25 Sept 2023) 11:59 pm AEST
Review/Exam Week Monday (9 Oct 2023)
Feedback will be returned within two weeks after assignment due date.
Each solution should have the following items:
- Accurate drawing of assumed Sign Conventions, Free-Body and other diagrams as required for the solution. [20%]
- Accuracy in Calculations. [80%]
- All the steps should be explained in full detail.
- A single PDF file with clear and readable working should be submitted.
- 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.
4 Online Test
This assessment task is an online test that consists of several numerical questions. Students have three hours to complete their solution. An extra half an hour is provided for scanning and uploading and submitting the assessment.
Important Notes:
- The test will be during the exam week. The exact date will be announced on Moodle.
- The assessment duration is set for 180 minutes with an additional 30 minutes for scanning and uploading.
- The test will be automatically closed after the end of the given time frame.
- The test cannot generally be deferred. However, under exceptional circumstances, if you have valid reasons to defer the test, you can apply for assessment deferral with documents of proof before the due date.
The online test date will be announced on Moodle page of the unit. The test will be during the exam week.
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Each solution should have the following items:
- Accurate drawing of assumed Sign Conventions, Free-Body and other diagrams as required for the solution. [20%]
- Accuracy in Calculations. [80%]
- All the steps should be explained in full detail.
- A single PDF file with clear and readable working should be submitted.
- Analyse two and three-dimensional force systems to determine resultant forces
- 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
- Calculate sectional properties such as center of gravity, centroid, and second moment of Inertia of simple structural forms
As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.
Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.
Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.
What can you do to act with integrity?
