Engineering Design: 29th Jan 2024

END360S Week 1

Review of Previous Knowledge

Read and Brush up your Mechanics & structural analysis.
1. Define Mechanics? With some practical examples
2. What is a Force? Draw a frame and show all the forces.
3. Explain Newton's First Law of Motion.
4. What is the difference between Mass and Weight?
5. Define Torque.
6. Explain Hooke's Law.
7. What is the principle of conservation of energy?
8. Differentiate between Static and Dynamic Equilibrium.
9. Define Friction and its types.
10.What is the Law of Action and Reaction?
11.What is direct stress, and how is it defined?
12.Explain bending stress and its relationship with the moment of inertia.
13.Define Young's Modulus and state its significance in material properties.
14.What is creep in materials, and how does it differ from elastic and plastic
deformation?
15.Define fatigue in the context of materials and structures.
16.How does direct stress differ from shear stress in a material?
17.Explain the concept of a neutral axis in bending stress and its role in
calculating bending stress.
18.How does Young's Modulus relate to the stiffness and flexibility of
materials?
19.What factors influence the rate of creep in materials?
20.What are some common methods to prevent or mitigate fatigue failure
in engineering applications?
Basic Problems on Shear Force and Bending Moments
1. Given a simply supported beam of length 5 meters subjected to a point
load of 10 kN at the midpoint, calculate the shear force and bending
moment at different sections.
2. A uniformly distributed load of 4 kN/m acts on a simply supported beam
of length 8 meters. Calculate the shear force and bending moment at
the supports.
3. Consider a cantilever beam of length 6 meters subjected to a
concentrated load of 15 kN at the free end. Determine the shear force
and bending moment at different sections along the beam.
4. A continuous beam with three equal spans, each of length 4 meters, is
subjected to a point load of 20 kN at the midspan of the middle span.
Calculate the shear force and bending moment at critical sections.
5. Consider a continuous beam with unequal spans of 3 meters, 4 meters,
and 5 meters. Apply a uniformly distributed load of 5 kN/m on the entire
length. Calculate the shear force and bending moment at different
sections.
6. A simply supported beam of length 8 meters is loaded with a point load
of 12 kN at 2 meters from one support. Calculate the reactions, shear
force, and bending moment at various locations along the beam.
7. For a cantilever beam of length 5 meters, subjected to a uniformly
distributed load of 8 kN/m, calculate the reactions at the fixed end,
shear force, and bending moment at different sections.
8. A cantilever beam of length 7 meters is subjected to a point load of 25
kN at its free end. Calculate the reactions, shear force, and bending
moment at different locations along the cantilever.