The University of Toronto Prof. D.K.

Panesar
CIVIL & MINERAL ENGINEERING
CIV100 – Section 8 Fall 2018 - Mechanics
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Instructor
Professor D.K. Panesar, Ph.D., P.Eng.
Email: d.panesar@utoronto.ca
Office: Galbraith Building (GB) Room 323
Contact: If you wish to contact Prof. Panesar outside of lectures and
tutorial time, please email her to set up an appointment. For a speedier
response, be sure to type ‘CIV100’ in the subject heading.

Teaching Assistants (TA)

To be announced

Schedule
Lectures: Wednesday 12:10 -1:00 SF 1101
Thursday 9:10 -10:00 MC 102
Friday 11:10 -12:00 ES 1050
Tutorials: Friday 4:10 - 6:00 SS 2118

Course Requirements
Interim Submissions 5%
Interim Quizzes 5%
Midterm Exam 30%
Final Exam 60%
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TOTAL 100%
For each of the sections of CIV 100, the 40% term work component will be normalized to a
class average of 28/40 (i.e., 70%). This may require either raising or lowering the actual
marks obtained. Portal/Blackboard will be used for posting of marks.

Course Description
The principles of statics are applied to the composition and resolution of forces, moments,
and couples. The equilibrium states of structures are examined. Throughout, the free body
diagram concept is emphasized. Vector algebra is used where it is most useful, and stress
blocks are introduced. Shear force and bending moment diagrams are discussed along with
stress-stain relationships for different materials. Stress and deformation in axially loaded
members and in flexural members (beams) are also covered.

Text and Notes: Engineering Mechanics - STATICS by R. C. Hibbeler, 14th Edition in

SI units, PEARSON Prentice Hall. Complementary notes, dated July, 2011, on three topics
in strength of materials are shrunk-wrapped with the texts and are also available as a pdf file
on the course website in addition to a set of suggested problems.

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Class schedule and Homework Schedule: You are expected to come to class prepared for
the lecture. Prior to each week, please do the assigned text reading as indicated below.
Chapter
Week of: Tentative Lecture Topics & Pages (from the 14th edition)

Sept.4 1 Introduction, engineering design, units, housekeeping

Scalar approach - 2D
Concept of a force, scalar addition of forces (p. 17-38)
Sept. 11 2& 3
Equilibrium of a particle, free body diagram of concurrent forces
(p.87-95)
Moment of a force (p.121- 124), principle of moments (p.132-134),
Sept. 18 moment of a couple (p. 154-159), force-couple resultant (p.166- 170), a
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single resultant force and its location (p.177-181)

Distributed and concentrated loading on beams (p.190-194)

4&5
Sept. 25 Equilibrium of a rigid body, two and three force members,
Free body diagrams, equations of equilibrium (p.207- 231)
Vector approach - 3D
Oct.2 Cartesian vector (p.44-47), Equilibrium of a particle in 3D (p. 106-110)
2, 3, 4
Position vector (p.56), vector along a line (p.59), dot product (p.69-71)
Cross product (p.125), moment of a force about at point (p.128-131)
Moment of a force about a specified axis (p.145-), triple mixed product
4& 5
Oct. 9 (p146), Equilibrium of a rigid body in 3D (p.245-); Support reactions
(p251-)
Structural analysis: Trusses (No Space Trusses)
Oct.16 6 Method of joints, zero force members, method of sections (p.273-296)
6; Structural analysis: Frames
Complementary Frames, free body diagrams, analysis; machines, pulleys (p 305-320)
Oct. 23 notes (pdf) Strength of materials, design of axially loaded bars
Stress-strain in axially loaded bars, Hooke’s law, design of sections
Internal forces in beams
Oct 30 7 Examples of shear (V), diagrams and moment (M) diagrams,
relationship between W, V, M (p.343-375)

Centre of gravity
Nov. 6 9 Centroids (p. 465-), composite bodies (p.488-)
(Note: only regular shapes; no integration)

Hydrostatic Pressure:
Nov.13 9 Resultant of pressure distribution over a surface (p. 511-518),
(only regular shapes; no integration)
10;
Complementary Strength of materials, design of beams
Nov.20
notes (pdf); Moment of inertia of an area, I (p. 529-531), Stresses due to bending
Nov.27 Complementary
notes (pdf) Section modulus (S); stress blocks, bending stress formula.

Dec .4 Review problems

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Note: The following topics/sections are omitted:
 Reduction of a force system to a wrench (p. 173);
 Space trusses (section 6.5);
 Cables (section 7.4);
 Chapter 8
 Chapter 11
 Buckling (Complementary notes);
With regards to the topics of centroids, area moment of inertia, hydrostatic pressure, and the
shapes of distributed loads on beams, we will only use simplified/regular shapes (rectangles
and triangles or their compositions). The use of calculus is not required for analyzing these
topics.
Course Communication
Information including lectures, announcements, submissions/assignments, handouts, grades
and other information relevant for the course will be given in lectures and the tutorial session.
If lectures or tutorials are missed, please borrow notes from classmates. The course outline
will be posted on the course website. All petitions are to be submitted directly to the first
year office.

Tutorials and Assignments

 Attendance in tutorials is strongly encouraged.
 Assignment#1 can be completed on blank or lined paper. Pen, pencil, or typed font is
adequate.
 Assignment #2 onward must be done neatly in pencil on one side only of the engineering
problem paper. (Do not write on the back of the pages.) Pads of this paper are sold in the
Eng. Society Store, in the basement of the Sanford Fleming Building. A straight edge
and eraser are required for clean and clear drawings.
 The tutorial problem sheets will be handed out at the beginning of the tutorial period. The
pages of the completed problem set MUST be stapled together. Submissions fastened
with paper clips or folded paper will not be accepted.
 Due dates will be specified on assignment handouts and they are firm. All assignments
are to be submitted in class or tutorial. Emailed submissions will not be accepted. Late
submissions will not be accepted.
 Assignment grading will be detailed on each assignment hand out. In general, each
assignment is graded out of 2. At the end of the term, two of the poorest assignment
grades will be dropped.
 Eating, drinking, use of cell phones and laptops are not permitted in lectures and
tutorials.

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General Notes About Quizzes, Midterm Test and Final Exam
Quizzes, the midterm test and final exam will be "closed-book" i.e., no aids allowed except
for a non-programmable calculator. Permissible non-programmable calculators for quizzes,
tests and final exam are: Casio FX991, Sharp EL520. (Trailing letters after a model number
are irrelevant). It is your responsibility to ensure your calculator is one of the above listed.

Quizzes
Quizzes are closed book and closed notes and are scheduled for:
Friday October 5nd, 2018 (approx. 1 hour)
Friday November 23rd, 2018 (approx. 1 hour)

Mid Term Test

The term test is closed book and closed notes and is scheduled for:
October 25, 2018 6:00- 8:00 pm (Location to be announced)
Final Examination
The final exam schedule will not be known until November 2018.

Request for Re-marking

Within 2 business days from receiving your marked work, attach a note to the originally
submitted work identifying the specific reasons for requesting that it be re-marked. Your
grade may stay the same, increase or decrease. No request will be accepted if received after
2 business days. You may make this submission to the instructor after a lecture, to her office
(GB323) or you can submit it to the Civil office, GB116, and ask that it be date marked.
Please note that no requests for remarking will be accepted after the term has ended (Dec. 5,
2018).

Code of Behaviour on Academic Matters

The University Code of Behaviour is detailed at the following link:
http://www.governingcouncil.utoronto.ca/policies.htm. Plagiarism is an academic offence,
sanctions can include a zero for the work to an expulsion from the university and a notation
on the transcript.

Material to be Covered: The course will consist of the following chapters in the text
and complementary notes. Lecturers may choose not to cover the material in the same
sequence as in the text. Although the text places considerable emphasis on the use of vector
operations, CIV100 will emphasize the use of scalar operations. It is assumed that students
have not covered integration in other courses and it is not required in CIV100.

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Textbook Chapters:
Chapter 1 General Principles
Chapter 2 Force Vectors
Chapter 3 Equilibrium of a Particle
Chapter 4 Force System Resultants (In Section 4.8 omit Reduction to a Wrench. In
Section 4.9 omit distributed loads other than uniform, uniformly varying, and
combinations thereof.)
Chapter 5 Equilibrium of a Rigid Body (It is recommended that the first part of Section
7.1 on internal actions at a specific location along a beam be included as part
of this chapter. The vector operations listed on the back of this document will
normally be covered as the second part of this chapter.)
Chapter 6 Structural Analysis (Omit Sections 6.5)
Chapter 7 Internal Forces (Omit calculus in Section 7.3, and omit Section 7.4)
Chapter 8 Friction (Omit this chapter.)
Chapter 9 Centre of Gravity and Centroid (Only areas consisting of rectangles, triangles
and circles will be covered, and only volumes consisting of related prismatic
shapes.) (Omit Sections 9.3 and 9.4.) (In Section 9.5 omit fluid pressure acting
on curved surfaces.)
Chapter 10 Moment of Inertia (Second Moment of Area) (Omit Sections 10.5, 10.6, 10.7,
10.8, and 10.9.)
Chapter 11 Virtual Work (Omit this chapter.)
Complementary Notes:
Chapter 1 Axial Stress and Strain, Hooke’s Law, Buckling (Omit Section 1.3 and
columns with intermediate lateral supports.)
Chapter 2 Load, Pressure, and Stress Blocks
Chapter 3 Stresses Due to Bending of Beams

Application of Mechanics to Design:

(i) Design of tension members using yielding as the failure criterion
(ii) Design of beams using initial yielding due to bending moment as the failure criterion.

Topics in Vector Mechanics:

With one important exception the course material will be taught using scalar mechanics. The
one exception is the use of vector operations including dot and cross products for solving
problems in mechanics requiring the moment of forces in space about lines and points. The
following topics will be covered:
- vector representation of forces and lines using either unit vectors or parenthetical notation, e.g. (p, q, r)
- computing a unit vector in a given direction
- scalar and vector components of a forced in the direction of a given line (dot product followed by the
scalar multiplication of a unit vector)
- moment of a force about a point (cross product)
- moment of a force about a line passing through the point (cross product followed by a dot product)
- moment of a force about a line expressed as a vector
- equilibrium problems in three dimensions.