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ENGS24 MECHANICS OF DEFORMABLE BODIES

INTRODUCTION TO MECHANICS OF complex problems. As a result, this subject


DEFORMABLE BODIES expanded into other areas of mechanics,
such as the theory of elasticity and the
COURSE OUTCOMES:
theory of plasticity.
AT THE END OF THIS TOPIC THE STUDENT WILL
IMPORTANT PRINCIPLE OF STATICS
BE ABLE TO:

• APPLY SOME IMPORTANT PRINCIPLES AND • EXTERNAL LOADS. A body is


TOPICS IN STATICS TO DETERMINE THE subjected to only two types of external
INTERNAL RESULTANT LOADING IN A BODY loads: namely, surface force or
body forces.
• DEFINE MECHANICS OF MATERIALS AND
SOME OTHER IMPORTANT TERMS USED IN • Surface Force are caused by the
THIS SUBJECT direct contact of one body with the
• DISCUSS THE METHOD OF SECTIONS USED
surface of another. In all cases these
IN DETERMINING THE INTERNAL forces are distributed over the area of
RESULATANT LOADING contact between the bodies.

MECHANICS OF DEFORMABLE BODIES • Concentrated Force/Concentrated


Load. If the area of contact is small in
Mechanics of Deformable Bodies is a study of comparison with the total surface area
the relationship between the external loads of the body, then the surface force can
applied to a body and the stress and strain be idealized as concentrated load.
caused by the internal loads within the body.
• Linear Distributed Load w(s). The
Characteristics of Mechanics of Deformable loading is measured as having an
Bodies are Strength, Stiffness and Stability. It intensity of force/length along the strip
is essential to have a thorough and is represented graphically by a
understanding of the fundamentals of this series of arrows along the lines. The
subject because many of the formulas and resultant force FR of w(s) is equivalent
rules of design cited in engineering codes are to the area under the distributed
based upon the principles of this subject. loading curve, and this resultant acts
HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT through the centroid C or geometric
center of this area. The length of a
The origin of mechanics of materials beam is a typical example of where
dates to the beginning of the seventeenth this idealization is often applied.
century, when Galileo performed
experiments to the study of the effects of • BODY FORCE. A body force is
loads on rods and beams made of various developed when one body exerts a
materials. However, at the beginning of the force on another body without direct
eighteenth century, experimental methods physical contact between the bodies.
for testing materials were vastly improved, • Support Reactions. The surface forces
and at that time many experimental and that develop at the supports or point
theoretical studies in this subject were of contact between bodies are called
undertaken primarily in France, by such reactions.
notables as Saint-Venant, Poisson, Lamé, and
Navier. As a rule, if the support prevents
translations in each direction, then a force
Over the years, after many of the must be developed on the member in that
fundamental problems of mechanics of direction. Likewise, if rotation is
materials had been solved, it became prevented, a couple moment must be
necessary to use advanced mathematical exerted on the member.
and computer techniques to solve more
BY: ENGR MARK GLENN S. DOMINGUEZ
ENGS24 MECHANICS OF DEFORMABLE BODIES

TYPES OF SUPPORTS AND REACTIONS

BY: ENGR MARK GLENN S. DOMINGUEZ

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