Faculty of Engineering and Forestry

General Course Information

ENGR102
Engineering Mechanics & Materials

0.125 EFTS 15 Points

Second Semester 12 July 2010 to 12 November 2010

Description
A course for students advancing in Engineering programmes that requires in-depth analysis of components
and structures, ENGR102 reinforces concepts of free-body diagrams and the mechanics of real life
applications (both statics and dynamics). The course also introduces concepts and fundamental properties
of engineering materials.

Timetable

This course comprises a weekly schedule of 4 lectures. Additionally there will be 18 hours of tutorials and
experimental sessions distributed over the semester.

Course Co-ordinator
Assoc. Prof. Charles Fleischmann
E401 364-2399
charles.fleischmann@canterbury

Assessment
Statics Test 38%
Materials Test 12%
Dynamics Test 25%
Quizzes 10%
Homework 10%
Laboratories 5%

Homework & Tutorials:

There is one homework question set at each lecture a total of 4 questions per week. Homework is
due at the end of your tutorial session the following week. For the first two tutorials there will be
an answer sheet for each question and only the repeated answers are to be entered on this sheet.
Working for the question must be written out on A4 sheets and stapled to the back of the answer
sheet: no attached working sheet equals no marks for that question. Homework is to be brought to
your tutorial and handed in by the end of the tutorial session (there are staplers in the tutorial
room). During the session the tutor may provide assistance with the homework. Do not arrive at
the tutorial without all of the homework problems attempted and at least partly completed. The
tutorial time is an opportunity to have your homework questions answered, you are not expected to
start from scratch and complete the homework within the 50 minutes tutorial period. Late
homework will not be accepted. Homework will contribute 10% of the total mark for the course.
There end up being 10 weeks that you are expected to hand in the homework so which makes each
weeks homework worth 1% of the final grade. Marks for homework and tests will be posted on
Learn. Students are responsible for checking that they have been correctly recorded and
should inform Charley Fleischmann urgently if there is any discrepancy.
Quizzes:
There will be 3 online quizzes as part of this course. The quizzes are intended to reinforce your learning and
to provide for more multifaceted assessment. The quizzes will be given through Learn and will be multiple

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choice format. The quiz will be offered on a day to be announced from 4:00pm to 8:00pm but once you start
the quiz you will have 60 minutes to complete it. While you are taking a quiz, your internet browser will be
locked so you cannot search online. There will be a number of practice quizzes that you may take to insure
that you understand the expectations and technology. Only your two highest quizzes will be counted in your
final assessment. Because we are only counting the best two quizzes, no special considerations will be
given for quizzes that are missed for any reason including illness, human error on your part, technology
problems, etc.

Examination and Formal Tests

Static Test 8 Sept 2010 6:00pm to 8:00pm To be announced

Materials Test 22 Sept 2010 6:00pm to 8:00pm To be announced
Dynamics Test To be announced

Textbooks
Engineering Mechanics (Custom publication based on the 8th edition Vector Mechanics for Engineers),
“Statics, Materials and Dynamics”, ME/UC custom edition by Beer & Johnston.

Prerequisites
EMTH118
Co-requisite
EMTH119, PHYS101

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Goal of the Course
To lay the foundation of how to approach a real-life engineering problem theoretically and to equip students
with the analytical and modelling tools for static and dynamic analyses.
To develop basic competency in the application of the methods of strength of materials to problems in
Mechanical Engineering.

Learning Outcomes
Understanding (in simple, basic terms) what it means to codify real-life observations (relating to statics,
strength of materials, dynamics) with the help of mathematic-mechanical expressions.
Students will:
 have developed and be able to demonstrate an understanding of the forces, moments and couples
that act on rigid bodies
 have developed and be able to demonstrate the ability to analyse the forces, moments and couples of
trusses, frames and machines
 have developed and be able to demonstrate the application of vector methods to the analysis of
statics of rigid bodies.
 have a basic understanding of the classes of structural materials
 have a basic understanding of mechanical properties of materials and failure mechanisms
 have a methodology for selecting structural materials
 have developed basic skills in kinematics, mass distribution of rigid bodies and dynamics, as well as
have gained understanding of methods in classical mechanics
 have developed and be able to demonstrate basic skills to derive and to analyse the equations of
motion for simple structures
 have developed and be able to demonstrate writing and associated communication skills.

Summary of the Course Content

The topics covered in this course are:
 Rigid body forces in 1and 2D
 Equilibrium of a rigid body
 Distributed forces, centroids
 Analysis of trusses, frames
 3D statics and vector operations
 Introduction to engineering materials
 Concepts of stress and strain
 simple kinematics of particles and of rigid bodies
 simple dynamics of a particle, of a system of particles, and rigid bodies
 mass moments of inertia of rigid bodies
 derivation of equations of motion via Newton’s 2nd Law
 principles of work, impact, kinetic and potential energies

Lecturers:

Charles Fleischmann E401 364-2399 (x6399) charles.fleischmann@canterbury.ac.nz

Brendon Bradley E426 364-2987 (x7395) brendon.bradley@canterbury.ac.nz
Eric Scheepbouwer E414 364-2987 (x45548) eric.scheepbouwer@canterbury.ac.nz
Milo Kral E522 364-2987 (x7392) milo.kral@canterbury.ac.nz
Stefanie Gutschmidt E542 364-2987 (x7215) stefanie.gutschmidt@canterbury.ac.nz

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Students with Disabilities
Students with disabilities should speak with someone at Disability Resource Service. Their office is room 420
in the Erskine Building (Mathematics and Computer Science Building). Phone: 364 2350 (or ext. 6350),
email: disabilities@canterbury.ac.nz

Policy on Dishonest Practice

Plagiarism, collusion, copying and ghost writing are unacceptable and dishonest practices.

• Plagiarism is the presentation of any material (text, data, figures or drawings, on any medium
including computer files) from any other source without clear and adequate acknowledgement of the source.
• Collusion is the presentation of work performed in conjunction with another person or persons, but
submitted as if it has been completed only by the names author(s).
• Copying is the use of material (in any medium, including computer files) produced by another
person(s) with or without their knowledge and approval.
• Ghost writing is the use of another person(s) (with or without payment) to prepare all or part of an
item submitted for assessment.

In cases where dishonest practice is involved in tests or other work submitted for credit, the student will be
referred to the University Proctor. The instructor may choose to not mark the work.

Reconsideration of Grades
Students should, in the first instance, speak to the course co-ordinator about their marks. If they cannot
reach an agreeable solution, or have questions about their grade in a course, students should then speak to
the Dean of Engineering, College of Engineering Office. Students can appeal any decision made on their
final grade. You can apply at the Registry for reconsideration of the final grade within four weeks of the date
of publication of final results. Be aware that there are time limits for each step of the appeals process.

Aegrotat Applications
If you feel that illness, injury, bereavement or other critical circumstances has prevented you from completing
an item of assessment or affected your performance, you should complete an aegrotat application form,
available from the Registry or the Student Health and Counselling Service. This should be within seven
days of the due date for the required work or the date of the examination. In the case of illness or injury,
medical consultation should normally have taken place shortly before or within 24 hours after the due date
for the required work, or the date of the test or examination. For further details on aegrotat applications,
please refer to the Enrolment Handbook. You have the right to appeal any decision made, including aegrotat
decisions.

Missing of Tests
In rare cases a student will not be able to sit a test. In such cases, the student should consult with the
course co-ordinator to arrange alternative procedures. This must be done well in advance of the set
date for the test.

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Syllabus outline

Topics Beer & Johnston*, Lab. &

W.F. Smith** Assessments
(chapters)
Week 1 STATICS
1 Introduction 1.1 2.8
Principles 1.2
Units 1.3
STATICS IN 2-DIMENSIONS
Single Particle Statics
Introduction 2.1
Resultant of two forces 2.2
Vectors 2.3
2 Resultant, forces at a point 2.5 2.20
Components of a force 2.6
3 Rectangular components 2.7 2.35
Unit vectors
Adding x- and y-components 2.8
4 Particle equilibrium 2.9 2.71
Newton 1 2.10
Free body diagrams 2.11
Week 2
1 Rigid Body Force Equivalence 3.6
Introduction 3.1
External and internal forces 3.2
Transmissibility 3.3
Moment of a force 3.6
2 Moment of a couple 3.12 3.69
Equivalent couples 3.13
Representation by vectors 3.15
3 Force – couple equivalence 3.98
Force system to force – couple 3.18
Equivalent force systems
4 Equilibrium of Rigid Bodies 4.17
Introduction 4.1
Free body diagrams 4.2
Reactions at supports 4.3
Week 3
1 Equilibrium in 2-dimensions 4.4 4.50
2 Indeterminate reactions 4.5 4.79
Two-force body equilibrium 4.6
Three-force body equilibrium 4.7
3 Distributed Forces 5.7
Introduction 5.1
Centre of gravity 2-D body 5.2
Centroids of areas and lines 5.3
First moments of areas 5.4
Distributed loads on beams 5.8
4 Introduction 6.1 6.11
Definition of a truss 6.2
Simple trusses 6.3
Method of joints 6.4
Week 4
1 Method of sections 6.7 6.63
2 Analysis of Frames and Machines 6.145
Multiforce members 6.9

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 Analysis of a frame supports 6.10
Non-rigid frames 6.11
3 Machines 6.12 2.117
Statics in 3-dimensions
Rectangular components 2.12
Force magnitude and direction 2.13
Addition of forces at a point 2.14
4 Equilibrium at a point 2.15 2.103
Week 5
1 Scalar product of 2 vectors 3.9 3.21

Statics Lab
2 Vector product 3.4 3.26
3 Moment about a point 3.6 3.30
Varignon’s theorem 3.7
Moment rectangular components 3.8
4 Moment of force about an axis 3.11 3.56
Week 6
1 scalar triple product as a volume 3.10 3.117
moment of a couple 3.12
equivalent couples 3.13
addition of couples 3.14
couples as vectors 3.15
2 force-couple equivalence 3.16 4.126
reduction to force-couple 3.17
equivalent force systems 3.18
3 Equilibrium in 3-dimensions 4.8 3.104
Reactions in 3-dimensions 4.9
4 Summary Lecture
Semester Break
Week 7 MATERIALS
1 Classes of engineering materials 1

TERM test
2 Structure of crystalline materials 3 Statics
3
4 Concept of mechanical properties: 6
Stress, strain
Elastic properties
Week 8
1 Yielding, plasticity 6
mechanical properties
2 Failure mechanisms: 7
Ductile
Brittle
3 Fatigue 7
Corrosion
4 Materials selection -
Week 9 DYNAMICS
1 Introduction
Mechanics (overview) – statics, science 11.1
of materials, kinetics/dynamics
Review on particle dynamics 1D/2D,
translation/rotation from PHYS101
Coordinate systems, Reference frames
2 Cartesian coordinates (2D + example) 11.11
Polar coordinates (2D + example) 11.14
Natural coordinates (2D + example) 11.13

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3 Relative motion to a frame 11.12
Free and constraint motion (definition +
example(s))
Relative motion of particles 11.6
4 Kinetics/dynamics, Newton’s 2nd Law in 12.2
different reference frames and
coordinate systems 1D/2D’
Free-body diagrams for dyn. systems
Equations of motion 12.5
Week 10
1 Linear momentum 12.3
Angular momentum 12.7
2 System of particles 14.2
Newton’s Laws/effective forces
3 Linear/angular momentum 14.3
Motion of mass centre 14.4
4 Angular momentum about mass centre 14.5
Conservation of momentum 14.6
Week 11
1 Rigid body kinematics:
Translation 15.2
Rotation about fixed axis 15.3
General plane motion 15.5
2 Absolute and relative quantities 15.6

Materials Lab
(position, velocity, acceleration) in plane 15.8
motion
Instantaneous centre of rotation 15.7
3 General plane motion with respect to a 15.10
moving (rotating) frame
Coriolis acceleration for a single particle 15.11
4 Rigid body dynamics:
Equations of motion 16.2
Linear and angular momentum 16.3
Free and constrained motion 16.8
Week 12
1 Kinetic and potential energy (plane 17.4
motion)
Work of forces acting on a rigid body 17.3
Principle of work and energy 17.2
Conservation of energy 17.6
2 Power, efficiency 17.7
Principle of impulse and momentum 17.8
(plane motion)
3
4 Review (materials and dynamics)

Final Exam

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