Instructor:

Dr. Ahmet TUKEN

Office: 2A 90
E-mail: atuken@ksu.edu.sa

This lecture note is mainly quoted from the text books of Statics by Meriam & Karige and Statics by Beer & Johnston

CHAPTER 2 FORCE SYSTEMS

(INTRODUCTION)

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(FORCE & RESULTANT OF TWO FORCES)

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(RECTANGULAR COMPONENTS)

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(EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL FORCES)
Forces acting on rigid bodies are
divided into two groups:
- External forces (i.e. applied forces,
reactions & weight)
- Internal forces (tension, compression,
shear, bending & torsional moments)

External forces are shown in a

free-body diagram.

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(PRINCIPLE OF TRANSMISSIBILITY - 1)

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(PRINCIPLE OF TRANSMISSIBILITY - 2)

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(FORCE CLASSIFICATION)

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(Collinear, Coplanar & Concurrent Forces)

Collinear : If several forces lie along the same line of

action, they are said to be collinear.

Coplanar : When all forces acting on a body are in

the same plane, the forces are coplanar.

Concurrent : A concurrent force system contains

forces whose lines of action meet at a common point.

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(VECTOR ADDITION - POLYGON RULE)
Polygon Rule:
can be used for the addition of more than two vectors. Two vectors are
actually summed and added to the third and so on...

P + Q + S = (P + Q) + S = P + (Q + S)
This is the Associative Law of Vector Addition

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(RESULTANT OF VECTORS)

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EXAMPLE - 1

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EXAMPLE 1 (CONTINUED)

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EXAMPLE - 2

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EXAMPLE 2 (CONTINUED)