Engineering Mechanics

Introduction to Engineering
Mechanics
AFNAN HASAN
Lecturer
Department of Mechanical Engineering
CUET
WHAT IS MECHANICS?
Mechanics can be defined as that science which describes and predicts
the conditions of rest or motion of bodies under the action of forces.
 Classification of mechanics:
Engineering Mechanics

Mechanics of Solids
Mechanics of Fluids

Mechanics of rigid Mechanics of [Link] fluid

Bodies Deformable bodies [Link] fluid

Kinematics

Statics Dynamics

Kinetics
Basic Concepts of Mechanics:
• The Parallelogram Law for the Addition of Forces: This states that
two forces acting on a particle may be replaced by a single force,
called their resultant , obtained by drawing the diagonal of the
parallelogram which has sides equal to the given forces.
Basic Concepts of Mechanics:
• The Principle of Transmissibility: This states that the conditions
of equilibrium or of motion of a rigid body will remain unchanged if a
force acting at a given point of the rigid body is replaced by a force of
the same magnitude and same direction, but acting at a different point,
provided that the two forces have the same line of action
Basic Concepts of Mechanics:
Newton’s Three Fundamental Laws :
• First Law: If ∑F=0 that is no force is applied, the particle will remain at
original condition
• Second Law: If∑F ≠ 0 , the particle will have an acceleration
proportional to the resultant force; i.e., ∑F α a or ∑F=ma
• Third Law: The action and reaction forces have the same magnitude,
same line of action but opposite direction
• Gravitational Law: Two particles M and m are mutually attracted with
equal and opposite force of F and –F ; where F =
Basic Concepts of Mechanics:
• Particles:
A particle has a mass but a size that can be neglected. For example,The
size of the earth is insignificant in compared to the size of its orbit and
therefore the earth can be modeled as a particle when studying it’s
orbital motion.
• When a body is idealized as particle, then the principle of mechanics
reduce to a simplified form since the geometry of the body will not be
involved in the analysis.
Basic Concepts of Mechanics:
• Rigid body: A rigid body can be considered as a combination of large
number of particles in which all the particles remain at a fixed
distance from one another before and after the force is applied.

A A1

B AB = A1B1 B1
Basic Concepts of Mechanics:
Basic Concepts of Mechanics:
Basic Concepts of Mechanics: