ENGINEERING

MECHANICS

Statics of Deformable Bodies

STATICS-RB
INTRODUCTION
Reminders
BASIC PRINCIPLES OF MECHANICS
Mechanics
 is a branch of the physical sciences that is concerned
with the state of rest or motion of bodies that are
subjected to the action of forces.
 is the foundation of most engineering sciences and is
an indispensable prerequisite to their study.
 The purpose of mechanics is to explain and predict
physical phenomena and thus to lay the foundations
for engineering applications
THREE BRANCHES OF MECHANICS

Rigid-Body Mechanics
Deformable-Body Mechanics
Fluid Mechanics
Rigid-Body Mechanics

Statics
Dynamics
Statics - deals with the effects and
distribution of forces on rigid bodies
which are and remain at rest.
Dynamics - is concerned with the
accelerated motion of bodies.
FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS

Basic Quantities
 Length - is a measure of distance. In the International System of Quantities, length is any
quantity with dimension distance. In most systems of measurement, the unit of length is a base
unit, from which other units are derived. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length
 Time – can be defined as the ongoing and continuous sequence of events that occur in
succession, from the past through the present to the future. Time is a used to quantify, measure
or compare the duration of events or the intervals between them, and even, sequence events.
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 Mass - is both a property of a physical body and a measure of its resistance to acceleration (a
change in its state of motion) when a net force is applied. An object's mass also determines the
strength of its gravitational attraction to other bodies. The basic SI unit of mass is the kilogram
(kg). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass
 Force - In physics, a force is any interaction that, when unopposed, will change the motion of
an object.[1] A force can cause an object with mass to change its velocity (which includes to
begin moving from a state of rest), i.e., to accelerate. Force can also be described intuitively as
a push or a pull. A force has both magnitude and direction, making it a vector quantity. It is
measured in the SI unitof newtons and represented by the symbol F.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force
IDEALIZATION
Three Idealizations
 Particle - is a representative of the body (whole)
which has a mass but the size can be neglected
 Rigid Body - is a combination of a large number of
particles in which all the particles remain at a fixed
distance from one another, both before and after
applying a load.
 Concentrated Force – represent the effect of the
loading which is assumed to act at a point on a body.
NEWTON’S THREE LAWS OF MOTION
FIRST LAW: Law of Inertia
 An object at rest stays at rest
and an object in motion stays
in motion with the same
speed and in the same
direction unless acted upon
by an unbalanced force.
NEWTON’S THREE LAWS OF MOTION

FIRST LAW: Law of

Inertia
 An object at rest
stays at rest and an
object in motion
stays in motion with
the same speed and
in the same
direction unless
acted upon by an
unbalanced force.
NEWTON’S THREE LAWS OF MOTION
SECOND LAW: Law of
Acceleration

The acceleration of an object as

produced by a net force is directly
proportional to the magnitude of the net
force, in the same direction as the net
force, and inversely proportional to the
mass of the object.
NEWTON’S THREE LAWS OF MOTION
SECOND LAW: Law of
Acceleration

The acceleration of an
object as produced by a net
force is directly proportional
to the magnitude of the net
force, in the same direction
as the net force, and
inversely proportional to the
mass of the object.
NEWTON’S THREE LAWS OF MOTION
THIRD LAW: Law of Interaction

When one body exerts a force on a

second body, the second body
simultaneously exerts a force equal in
magnitude and opposite in direction on
the first body.
NEWTON’S LAW OF GRAVITATIONAL ATTRACTION:

𝒎𝟏 𝒎𝟐
𝑭=𝑮
𝒓𝟐

Where:

𝐹 = 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠

𝐺
= 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛; 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡
66.73𝑥10−12 𝑚3
𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒, 𝐺 =
𝑘𝑔 ∙ 𝑠 2
𝑚1 ∙ 𝑚2 = 𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠
𝑟 = 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠
NEWTON’S LAW OF GRAVITATIONAL ATTRACTION:

WEIGHT: is the
measure of the intensity of
𝒎𝑴𝒆
𝑾=𝑮 𝟐
the force imposed on this 𝒓
object by the local
gravitational field.
𝑮𝑴𝒆
𝑳𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒈 =
𝒓𝟐

𝑾 = 𝒎𝒈
UNIT OF MEASUREMENT:

International System of Units (SI, abbreviated from the French Système

international (d'unités))- is the modern form of the metric system, and is the most widely
used system of measurement. https://simple.wikipedia.org/

U.S customary units is the system of units of measurement used to measure things in
the United States. The system of Imperial units is similar and in some parts identical.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/
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