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University of Malaya Department of Mechanical Engineering Statics (Kmem 1101)

This document contains 6 questions from a tutorial on statics at the University of Malaya. The questions cover topics like locating centroids and centers of gravity for different plane areas and bent wires, determining centroid locations with integration, and calculating reactions at beam supports under various loading conditions.

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University of Malaya Department of Mechanical Engineering Statics (Kmem 1101)

This document contains 6 questions from a tutorial on statics at the University of Malaya. The questions cover topics like locating centroids and centers of gravity for different plane areas and bent wires, determining centroid locations with integration, and calculating reactions at beam supports under various loading conditions.

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UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING


STATICS (KMEM 1101)

Tutorial 5 (Chapter 5: Distributed forces: Centroids and center of gravity)


Question 1

a) Locate the centroid of the plane area shown in above.


b) A thin, homogeneous wire is bent to form the perimeter of the figure shown above.
Locate the center of gravity of the wire figured shown.
Question 2

Determine by direct integration the centroid of the area shown.


Express your answer in terms of a and h.

Question 3

A homogeneous wire is bent into the shape shown.


Determine by direct integration the x coordinate of its
centroid. Express your answer in terms of a.

UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
STATICS (KMEM 1101)

Question 4

Determine
(i)
(a) the reactions of the beam supports for the given loading when w0 = 1.5 kN/m.
(ii)

(a) the distributed load w0 at the end D of the beam ABCD for which the reaction
at B is zero, (b) the corresponding reactions at C.

Question 5

Determine (a) the distance a so that the vertical reactions at support A and B are equal, (b) the
corresponding reactions at the supports.
Question 6

Determine
(a)The x coordinate of the centroid of the
body shown.
(b)The z coordinate of the centroid of the
body shown.

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