Module manager: Dr. N. Nikitas
Email: n.nikitas@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable
Year running 2014/15
| CIVE1121 | Fundamentals of Engineering Mechanics and Stress Analysis |
This module is not approved as an Elective
The module aims to help students understand the elastic behaviour of indeterminate structures (ie those structures which cannot be solved using simple statics).
At the end of the module students should be able to:
- determine the force actions in such structures using a variety of techniques;
- measure and compute the solutions to complex structural stress problems, apply failure theories in design.
- Flexibility
- Independent Working
- Initiative
- Planning and Organisation
- Professionalism
- Self Awareness
- Team Working
- Time Management
- Use of Knowledge
- Statical and kinematical indeterminacy;
- Flexibility and stiffness methods of analysis of indeterminate structures;
- Moment distribution method for analysis of continuous beams and no-sway frames;
- Principle of virtual work: 2D pin jointed frames and beams;
- Comples stresses and strains; 2D stress system, principle strains and stresses from experiments;
- Theory of elastic failure of brittle and ductile materials; maximum direct stress, maximum shear stress and maximum shear strain energy theories.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Example Class | 6 | 1 | 6 |
| Laboratory | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Consultation | 5 | 1 | 5 |
| Lecture | 20 | 1 | 20 |
| Private study hours | 66 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 34 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 100 | ||
30 hours - reading per lecture (20 x 1.5 hours)
16 hours - work per problem sheet (4 x 4 hours)
25 hours - revison for final exam
4 x problem sheets (weeks 2, 4, 6 and 8).
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Problem Sheet | Formative - problem sheet | 5 |
| Problem Sheet | Formative - problem sheet | 5 |
| Problem Sheet | Formative - problem sheet | 5 |
| Problem Sheet | Formative - problem sheet | 5 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 20 | |
100% by examination.
| Exam type | Exam duration | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Standard exam (closed essays, MCQs etc) | 2.0 Hrs 0 Mins | 80 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Exams) | 80 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
The reading list is available from the Library website
Last updated: 06/01/2015
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