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‫‪Alexandria Higher Institute of Engineering and Technology‬‬

‫‪STATICS‬‬
‫‪ME001‬‬
‫دكتورمهندس استشارى‪ /‬سامح توفيق عبد الفتاح‬
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 ‫المحاضرة السادسة‬
Lecture (6)

Force System
Resultants

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 Lecture Objectives
 To discuss the concept of the moment of a force and show how to calculate
it in two and three dimensions.

 To provide a method for finding the moment of a force about a specified

axis.
 To define the moment of a couple.

 To present methods for determining the resultants of non-concurrent force

systems.

 To indicate how to reduce a simple distributed loading to a resultant force

having a specified location.

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 Moment of a Force

Magnitude of the moment

MO = F.d

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 Direction of the moment

+ -
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 Resultant of the moment

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 Example :-
Determine the resultant moment of the four forces acting
on the rod shown in Figure about point O .

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 Given:-
The shown figure with all its data

Required:-
(MR)O

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 Solution:-

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 Assignment

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 Resolve the above example by your self

using

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‫دكتورمهندس استشارى‪ /‬سامح توفيق عبد الفتاح‬

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