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Engineering
Statics

Dr. Rattanaporn Kasemsri

School of Civil Engineering
Department of Engineering
 General Introduction
• Instructor: Dr. Rattanaporn Kasemsri
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• Email: Kasemsri@sut.ac.th
• Tel: 044-224546
• Office room: CE13, 4th floor, Academic Building 1
Textbook
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• Engineering Mechanics: Statics, 13th SI Edition,

R.C. Hibbeler, Prentice Hall, Singapore, 2013

• Engineering Statics, Sittichai

Seangatith, SUT, 2017
 Objectives
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• To recognize the ways in which simple

systems resist forces and moments to
which they are subjected
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• To be able to simplify a complex force

analysis problem down to one that can
be analyzed
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• To be able to express the physical

problems in a mathematical or
graphical form
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In this case, unknown can be calculated

by using equation of equilibrium

• To understand the significance of T = 1140.06 N

the solution to the problem of any T = 1140.1 N
assumptions made. T = 1.14 kN
When force T in cable is determined, what
should we do ?
What will happen if T force that we
calculated is lower than the correct answer ?
 Why we need to study this subject ?
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1. Practice for real-life problems like "engineers“

Real
Model Theory Solution
problem
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2. Resulting in "engineering senses" and "engineering

judgments“
3. It is a "compulsory subject of the Council of
Engineers" that is required to take an examination to
apply for a Professional engineering license of the
major engineering including civil, electrical,
mechanical, industrial, chemical, environmental, and
mining.
 Chapter Subjects
1. General Principles
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2. Force Vectors
2.1 Parallelogram Law
2.2 Addition of Rectangular Components
2.3 Cartesian Vectors
2.4 Position and Force Vectors
2.5 Dot Product
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3. Equilibrium of a Particle
3.1 2-D Equilibrium
3.2 3-D Equilibrium
4. Force System Resultants
4.1 Moment of a Force 2-D
4.2 Moment of a Force 3-D
4.3 Moment of a Force About Specified Axis
4.4 Moment of a Couple
4.5 Simplification of a Force System
4.6 Simple Distributed Loading
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5.Equilibrium of a Rigid Body
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5.1 Free-Body Diagrams

5.2 Equilibrium in 2-D
5.3 Equilibrium in 3-D

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6.Structural Analysis
6.1 Trusses: Method of Joints
6.2 Trusses: Method of Sections
6.3 Frames and Machines
7. Internal Forces
7.1 Internal Forces in Structural Members
7.2 Shear and Moment Diagrams
7.3 Relation Between Distributed
Load, Shear and Moment
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8. Friction
8.1 Dry Friction
8.2 Wedges
8.3 Screws

9. Center of Gravity and Centroid

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9.1 Center of Gravity and Centroid by Integration

9.2 Composite Areas and Bodies
9.3 Theorems of Papusand Guldinus

10. Moment of Inertia

10.1 Moment of Inertia for Areas
10.2 Composite Bodies
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 Course Assessment
• Conduct of Course:
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• Assignments and Quizzes10%

• Midterm Examination40%
• Final Examination50%
• Grading Guides:
• 80 and aboveA
•
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75-79 B+
• 70-74 B
• 65-69 C+
• 60-64 C
• 55-59 D+
• 50-54 D
• below 50 F
• The above criteria may be changed at the instructor’s
discretion.
 Attendance Policy
1. Class attendance is mandatory. Missing classes more than
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80% will receive an automatic grade of “F”.

2. Students attending the lectures must bring the calculator
for a quiz and the lecture note.
3. Homework must be turn in 1 week after assigned.
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4. Cheating on the quizzes, homework, and examinations

will get a “zero score”, and/or be punished according to
the rules of Suranaree University of Technology.
5. No make up quizzes or examinations will be given without
a written Dean's permission. Student who passes the make-
up examinations will be given a maximum grade of “C”.
 Chapter Objectives
Lecture 1

• To provide an introduction to the basic quantities

and idealizations of mechanics.
• To give a statement of Newton’s Laws of Motion
and Gravitation.
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• To review the principles for applying the SI system

of units.
• To examine the standard procedures for performing
numerical calculations.
• To present a general guide for solving problems.
 Contents
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What is Mechanics?
Fundamental Concepts
Fundamental Principles
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Systems of Units
Method of Problem Solution
Numerical Accuracy

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 What is Mechanics?
• Mechanics is the science which describes and predicts
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the conditions of rest or motion of bodies under the

action of forces.

• Categories of Mechanics:
- Rigid bodies
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- Statics
- Dynamics
- Deformable bodies
- Fluids

• Mechanics is an applied science - it is not an abstract or pure science

but does not have the empiricism found in other engineering sciences.
• Mechanics is the foundation of most engineering sciences and is an
indispensable prerequisite to their study.
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 What is Mechanics?
• Mechanics
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 What is Mechanics?
• Example of systems using in this study
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 Fundamental Concepts
Basic Quantities
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• Space - associated with the notion of the position

of a point P given in terms of three coordinates
measured from a reference point or origin.
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• Time - definition of an event requires specification

of the time and position at which it occurred.

• Mass - used to characterize and compare bodies,

e.g., response to earth’s gravitational attraction and
resistance to changes in translational motion.

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 Fundamental Concepts
• Force - represents the action of one body on
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another. A force is characterized by its point of

application, magnitude, and direction, i.e., a force
is a vector quantity.
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In Newtonian Mechanics, space, time, and mass are absolute

concepts, independent of each other. Force, however, is not
independent of the other three. The force acting on a body is
related to the mass of the body and the variation of its
velocity with time.
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 Fundamental Concepts
• Idealizations
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is the method to reduce the complexity of a

system (structure) to become an easy system to apply
in various theories of the analysis
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 Fundamental Concepts
• Example for Idealizations for analysis
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• Particle. A particle has a mass, but a size

that can be neglected.
• Rigid Body. A rigid body can be
considered as a combination of a large
number of particles in which all the
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particles remain at a fixed distance from

one another, both before and after
applying a load.
• Concentrated Force. A concentrated
force represents the effect of a loading
which is assumed to act at a point on a
body.
 Fundamental Principles
Newton’s Law
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• Newton’s First Law: If the resultant

force on a particle is zero, the particle
will remain at rest or continue to move
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in a straight line.

• Newton’s Second Law: A particle will

have an acceleration proportional to a
nonzero resultant applied force.
 
F = ma
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 Fundamental Principles
• Newton’s Third Law: The forces of
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action and reaction between two

particles have the same magnitude
and line of action with opposite
sense.
• Newton’s Law of Gravitation: Two particles
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are attracted with equal and opposite forces,

Mm GM
F =G W = mg , g=
r2 R2
F = force of gravitation between the two particles
G = universal constant of gravitation; according to experimental evidence,
G = 66.73(10-12) m3>/(kgs2)
m1, m2 = mass of each of the two particles
r = distance between the two particles

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 Systems of Units
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• Kinetic Units: length, time,

mass, and force.

• International System of Units (SI):

The basic units are length, time, and
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mass which are arbitrarily defined as the

meter (m), second (s), and kilogram
(kg). Force is the derived unit,
F = ma
U.S. Customary: In the U.S.  m
Customary system of units 1 N = (1 kg )1 2 
 s 
(FPS) length is measured in
feet (ft), time in seconds (s),
and force in pounds (lb)

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 Systems of Units
• Units of Measurement
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 The International System of Units (SI)
• Prefixes for SI units
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 Method of Problem Solution
• Problem Statement:
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Includes given data, specification of what is to be determined, and a figure

showing all quantities involved.

• Free-Body Diagrams:
Create separate diagrams for each of the bodies involved with a clear
indication of all forces acting on each body.
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• Fundamental Principles:
The six fundamental principles are applied to express the conditions of rest
or motion of each body. The rules of algebra are applied to solve the
equations for the unknown quantities.

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 Method of Problem Solution
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• Solution Check:
- Test for errors in reasoning by verifying that the units of the
computed results are correct,
- test for errors in computation by substituting given data and
computed results into previously unused equations
based on the six principles,
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- always apply experience and physical intuition to assess whether

results seem “reasonable”

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 Numerical Calculations
• The accuracy of a solution depends on
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1) accuracy of the given data, and

2) accuracy of the computations performed. The solution cannot
be more accurate than the less accurate of these two.

• The use of hand calculators and computers generally makes the

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accuracy of the computations much greater than the accuracy of the

data. Hence, the solution accuracy is usually limited by the data
accuracy.

• As a general rule for engineering problems, the data are seldom

known with an accuracy greater than 0.2%. Therefore, it is usually
appropriate to record parameters beginning with “1” with four digits
and with three digits in all other cases, i.e., 40.2 N and 15.58 N.

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 Numerical Calculations
• Significant Figures
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• The number of significant figures contained in any

number determines the accuracy of the number.
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• Rounding Off Numbers

• Rounding off a number is necessary so that the accuracy
of the result will be the same as that of the problem data.
• There is a special case for any number that ends in a 5.
As a general rule, if the digit preceding the 5 is an even
number, then this digit is not rounded up. If the digit
preceding the 5 is an odd number, then it is rounded up.
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