ABRA VALLEY COLLEGES

Bangued Abra

VISION
The Abra Valley Colleges becomes a valuable institution for the entire province of Abra. It will sought for
as the province of Abra gets national recognition for providing educational opportunities especially in
higher education. Its educational sphere included all types of people, young and old, rich and poor rural
and urban.

MISSION
The Abra Valley Colleges was established to provide a wide range of general education programs
together with professional areas of study for the development of young men and women who lend the
province towards the attainment of an enlightened prosperous and self-propelled, civic conscious
society.

COURSE SYLLABUS
I. COURSE NO. MECH 311
NUMBER OF UNITS: 5
NUMBER OF LECTURE HOUR: 5
NUMBER OF LAB. HOUR: None

II. DESCRIPTIVE TITTLE: ENGINEERING MECHANICS

III. COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course covering topics in statics of rigid bodies including force systems, structure
analyses, friction, centroids and centers of gravity and moments of inertia.

IV. GENERAL OBJECTIVES:

At the end of the course, the student must be able to:
1. Understand the principles of equilibrium of particles
2. Undertake vector operations such as vector cross and dot product
3. Determine forces of 2D and 3D structures.
4. Understand the principle of static friction, wedges and built frictions.
5. Determine centroids, center of mass and center of gravity objects.
6. Determine moment of inertia, mass moment of inertia
7. Analyze the stress of trusses, beams and frames.

V. COURSE CONTENT:
1. RESULTANTS OF FORCE SYSTEMS
a. RECTANGULAR COMPONENTS OF A FORCE
b. RESULTANTS OF A COPLANAR CONCURRENT FORCES
c. COMPONENTS OF FORCES IN SPACE
d. RESULTANT OF FORCES IN SPACE
e. VECTOR NOTATION
f. VECTOR ALGEBRA DOT PRODUCT
2. EQUILIBRUM OF FORCE SYSTEMS
a. EQUILIBRUM OF PLANAR SYSTEMS
b. FURTHER DISCUSSION OF PLANAR EQUILIBRUM
3. ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURES
 a. METHOD OF JOINTS
b. METHOD OF SECTION
c. METHOD OF MEMBERS
4. FRICTION
a. LAWS OF FRICTION
b. FURTHER APPLICATIONS OF FRICTION
c. SQUARE – THREADED SCREWA
d. BELT FRICTION
5. CENTROIDS AND CENTERS OF GRAVITY
a. CENTROIDS BY INTEGRATION
b. CENTROIDS OF COMPOSITE FIGURES
c. THEOREMS OF PAPPUS
d. CENTER OF GRAVITY OF BODIES CENTROID OF VOLUMES
6. MOMENTS OF INERTIA
a. MOMENTS OF INERTIA BY INTEGRATION

VI. COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

1. ATTENDANCE
2. ASSIGNMENT
3. QUIZZES
4. MAJOR EXAM

VII. COURSE REFERENCES

ENGINEERING MECHANICS BY RICARDO C. ASIN

APPLIED MECHANICS BY BESSAVILLA

Prepared by:

HALLEL JHON B. BUTAC

Instructor

Recommending approval:

ARCH. DARIO BALLACILLO

CEA Department Head

Approved:

Dr. NORMA V. VIERNES, Ed. D

VPAA