Engineering Mechanics
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Engineering Mechanics Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Engineering Mechanics (subject code 3132005) as prescribed for Mechatronics · Semester 3 divides the course into 6 units, covering 39 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3132005)Unit 1 Introduction to Engineering Mechanics
- Particle equilibrium in 2-D & 3-D
- Rigid Body equilibrium
- System of Forces
- Coplanar Concurrent Forces
- Components in Space – Resultant- Moment of Forces and its Application
- Couples and Resultant of Force System
- Equilibrium of System of Forces
- Free body diagrams
- Equations of Equilibrium of Coplanar Systems and Spatial Systems
- Static Indeterminacy
Unit 2 Friction
- Types of friction
- Limiting friction
- Laws of Friction
- Static and Dynamic Friction
- Motion of Bodies
- wedge friction
Unit 3 Basic Structural Analysis
- Equilibrium conditions
- Method of Sections
- Method of Joints
- How to determine if a member forces in a simple truss
- Zero force members
Unit 4 Centroid and Centre of Gravity
- Centroid of simple figures from first principle
- centroid of composite sections
- Centre of Gravity and its implications
- Area moment of inertia- Definition
- Moment of inertia of plane sections from first principles
- Theorems of moment of inertia
- Moment of inertia of standard sections and composite sections
- Mass moment inertia of circular plate
Unit 5 Statically determinate beams
- Types of loads
- Types of supports
- Types of beams
- Determination of support reactions
- Relationship between loading
- shear force & bending moment
- Bending moment and shear force diagrams for beams subjected to three types of loads: i) concentrated loads ii) uniformly distributed loads iii) couples and their combinations
- Point of contraflexure
- point & magnitude of maximum bending moment
- maximum shear force
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