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Introduction and Review: Preamble

This document provides an introduction and overview of engineering science topics. It discusses the subdivisions of solid mechanics, including mechanics of rigid bodies and mechanics of deformable solids. Mechanics of rigid bodies deals with static and dynamic behavior of infinitely strong components under external forces, focusing on particle forces and motions. Mechanics of deformable solids is more concerned with internal forces and changes in geometry of components. It emphasizes material properties, strength, and stiffness, in order to determine stresses, strains, and deflections produced by loads. Both theoretical analysis and experimental results play important roles in mechanics of materials.

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Introduction and Review: Preamble

This document provides an introduction and overview of engineering science topics. It discusses the subdivisions of solid mechanics, including mechanics of rigid bodies and mechanics of deformable solids. Mechanics of rigid bodies deals with static and dynamic behavior of infinitely strong components under external forces, focusing on particle forces and motions. Mechanics of deformable solids is more concerned with internal forces and changes in geometry of components. It emphasizes material properties, strength, and stiffness, in order to determine stresses, strains, and deflections produced by loads. Both theoretical analysis and experimental results play important roles in mechanics of materials.

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LECTURE 1

INTRODUCTION AND REVIEW


Preamble
Engineering science is usually subdivided into number of topics such as
1. Solid Mechanics
2. Fluid Mechanics
3. Heat Transfer
4. Properties of materials and soon Although there are close links between them in terms of the physical
principles involved and methods of analysis employed.
The solid mechanics as a subject may be defined as a branch of applied mechanics that deals with
behaviours of solid bodies subjected to various types of loadings. This is usually subdivided into further two
streams i.e Mechanics of rigid bodies or simply Mechanics and Mechanics of deformable solids.
The mechanics of deformable solids which is branch of applied mechanics is known by several names i.e.
strength of materials, mechanics of materials etc.
Mechanics of rigid bodies:
The mechanics of rigid bodies is primarily concerned with the static and dynamic behaviour under external
forces of engineering components and systems which are treated as infinitely strong and undeformable
Primarily we deal here with the forces and motions associated with particles and rigid bodies.
Mechanics of deformable solids :
Mechanics of solids:
The mechanics of deformable solids is more concerned with the internal forces and associated changes in
the geometry of the components involved. Of particular importance are the properties of the materials used,
the strength of which will determine whether the components fail by breaking in service, and the stiffness of
which will determine whether the amount of deformation they suffer is acceptable. Therefore, the subject of
mechanics of materials or strength of materials is central to the whole activity of engineering design. Usually
the objectives in analysis here will be the determination of the stresses, strains, and deflections produced by
loads. Theoretical analyses and experimental results have an equal roles in this field.
Analysis of stress and strain :
Concept of stress : Let us introduce the concept of stress as we know that the main problem of
engineering mechanics of material is the investigation of the internal resistance of the body, i.e. the nature of
forces set up within a body to balance the effect of the externally applied forces.
The externally applied forces are termed as loads. These externally applied forces may be due to any one of

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