Engineering mechanics is a professional basic course. It provides a necessary foundation for learning about the subsequent advanced professional courses. And it can be directly applied to solve many engineering problems in the field of aerospace, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, energy and power, etc.
This course introduces the fundamental concepts of mechanics, for example, force/rigid body/equilibrium/friction, stress/strain, strength/rigidity etc. It studies the resultant and decomposition of forces, the equilibrium conditions and equilibrium equation of force system, the friction laws, ans so on. And then this module develops concepts of stresses and strains in basic deformations and how they may be designed to provent failure. It deals with the strength conditions and rigidity conditions of components under tension/compression, shear, torsion and bending. It provide students with a clear and thorough presentation of the physical behaviour of materials under load and then modeling this behaviour to develop the theory.Corresponding applications for real-life design tasks are finally discussed to get insight into basic mechanics-based material selection criteria.
