Duration
12h Th, 12h Pr
Number of credits
| Bachelor in bioengineering | 2 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
- Moment of force
- Force systems
- Equilibrium of rigid bodies
- Equilibrium with distributed forces
- Kinematics of rigid bodies
- Moment of intertia
- Dynamics of rigid bodies
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
After completing the course, the students will have reached a novice skill level in the different development stages :
- Design and size infrastructures and rural engineering structures such as dams, hydraulic structures, structures in steel, concrete and wood
- Design and size equipments pf monitoring and production in an agroenvironmental context
- Choose and size systems of purification, sanitation or renewable energy production
- Represent a body or system by a mechanical model, i.e. construct a free-body diagram
- Establish and solve the equilibrium equations to find reactions
- Compute mass centres and moments of inertia
- Describe the movement trajectory of a rigid body
- Establish and solve the movement equations of a rigid body
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Mechanics of particules
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Theoretical course (12h) and practical work (12h)
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Face-to-face for the theory
Classroom for the practical sessions
Recommended or required readings
Notes on e-campus
Reference books:
Meriam J.L., Kraige L.G. (1998). Engineering Mechanics, Vol. 1, Statics, John Wiley & Sons
Meriam J.L., Kraige L.G. (1998). Engineering Mechanics, Vol. 2, Dynamics, John Wiley & Sons
Assessment methods and criteria
Written examination without note on exercices (for the 1st and 2nd sessions)