SOLUTION OF EME-102; EQUILIBRIUM OF FORCES

EQUILIBRIUM OF FORCES IN 2D

A light string ABCDE whose extremity A is fixed, has weights W₁ & W₂ attached to it at B & C. It passes round a small smooth pulley at D carrying a weight of 300 N at the free end E as shown in figure. If in the equilibrium position, BC is horizontal and AB & CD make 150° and 120° with BC, find (i) Tensions in the strings and (ii) magnitudes of W₁ & W₂

Although ABCDE is a single string/rope but still the tensions in the string/rope will be different at different segments like in the segment AB the tensions will be T₁ , but in BC segment it will be different as the weight is attached at a fixed point (point B) on the string, hence it will be T₂ here and in CD it will be T₃  there. As at point D the string is not attached rather passes over a smooth pulley hence the tension in DE and CD will be same ie. T₃  again.

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To solve for equilibrium of forces in 2D, follow these steps:

1. Draw a free body diagram: Draw a diagram of the object in question and identify all the forces acting on it. This will help you visualize the problem and identify any unknown forces or angles.

2. Break forces into components: Resolve all forces into their x- and y-components. This is done by using trigonometry to determine the horizontal and vertical components of each force.

3. Apply Newton's second law: For the object to be in equilibrium, the sum of the forces in the x-direction and the sum of the forces in the y-direction must be equal to zero. This gives you two equations to solve simultaneously.

4. Solve the equations: Solve the equations for the unknown forces or angles by using algebraic methods. This will give you the values of the unknown forces or angles required for the object to be in equilibrium.

5. Check for consistency: Check that the forces and angles you have calculated are consistent with the problem and the free body diagram. For example, make sure that the direction of the forces makes sense and that the angles are reasonable.

6. Interpret the results: Interpret the results and explain what they mean in the context of the problem. This might involve calculating the tension in a rope, the force required to lift an object, or the angle required for an object to remain stationary.

Physics of Inertial Forces

Force Effects Caused by Inertia and Accelerating Reference Frames

Inertial forces are not real forces, rather they are often called as "pseudo forces". They produce effects that feel like forces but actually arise from Newton's inertial law in a reference frame that is accelerating.

When a car accelerates forward rapidly, a person inside the car feel pushed back into their seats. When the car turns around a curve, the person feels pulled to the outside of the curve. If the car suddenly comes to a stop, the persons inside the car not wearing seatbelts fly forward, possibly hitting the windshield. The car’s occupants may feel like some force is pushing them around, but in reality there are no forces shoving them in the directions they move inside the car. They feel shoved around the car because the car is accelerating. The occupants, however, follow Newton’s first law, the inertial law, and continue their original motion, as the car accelerates.


Newton’s First Law

Also called the inertial law, Newton’s first law requires that any object with no outside forces acting on it continues to move at a constant velocity. A constant velocity is a constant speed in a straight line because in physics the velocity includes direction. Any change in an object’s velocity (increasing speed, decreasing speed, or changing direction) is called an acceleration and requires an external force to act on the object. This tendency for objects to continue to move at a constant velocity is called inertia.


Inertial Forces

Despite the name, inertial forces are not real forces. Rather they are effects caused by an object’s inertia when the object is in or on something that is accelerating, what physicists call an accelerating reference frame.

For example, consider the occupants of a car rapidly increasing its speed. They feel pushed back into their seats, but not because some force is shoving them in the chest. The only real force acting on them is the back of the car seat accelerating them forward. Because of Newton’s first law, however, these occupants have inertia that tends to keep them at rest. They feel squeezed back into the car seat because the car is accelerating forward while their inertia would tend to keep them at rest.

When the car goes around a curve, it is also accelerating because the direction of the car’s velocity is changing. The occupants’ inertia tends to keep them moving in a straight line. Hence they feel pulled sideways in the car because they experience an inertial force (or effect) caused by the car’s acceleration as it changes direction.

Flying forward into the windshield when a car stops suddenly (Always wear seatbelts!) is a similar inertial effect. The car accelerates to a stop, and the occupants continue moving forward until their seatbelts (or the windshield) exerts a stopping force on the occupants. There is no real force pushing them forward, they just continue their forward motion, as required by Newton’s first law, while the car accelerates (slowing) to a stop.
Circular Motion

To move in a circular path, an object must have a centripetal force acting on it. The centripetal force points inward towards the center of the circle. The outward centrifugal effect is the tendency of the object to continue in a straight line motion. Hence, the centrifugal effect is an example of an inertial force and is not a real force acting on an object moving in a circular path.

Inertial forces feel like forces, but they are not real forces. They are effects caused by an object’s inertia when it is in or on something that is accelerating.


 D'Alembert's principle of inertial forces

D'Alembert showed that one can transform an accelerating rigid body into an equivalent static system by adding the so-called "inertial force" and "inertial torque" or moment. The inertial force must act through the center of mass and the inertial torque can act anywhere. The system can then be analyzed exactly as a static system subjected to this "inertial force and moment" and the external forces. The advantage is that, in the equivalent static system' one can take moments about any point (not just the center of mass). This often leads to simpler calculations because any force (in turn) can be eliminated from the moment equations by choosing the appropriate point about which to apply the moment equation (sum of moments = zero). Even in the course of Fundamentals of Dynamics and Kinematics of machines, this principle helps in analyzing the forces that act on a link of a mechanism when it is in motion. In textbooks of engineering dynamics this is sometimes referred to as d'Alembert's principle.

d’Alembert’s principle,  alternative form of Newton’s second law of motion, stated by the 18th-century French polymath Jean le Rond d’Alembert. In effect, the principle reduces a problem in dynamics to a problem in statics. The second law states that the force F acting on a body is equal to the product of the mass m and acceleration a of the body, or F = ma; in d’Alembert’s form, the force F plus the negative of the mass m times acceleration a of the body is equal to zero: F - ma = 0. In other words, the body is in equilibrium under the action of the real force F and the fictitious force -ma. The fictitious force is also called an inertial force and a reversed effective force.

QUESTION BANKS: Analyse the following Trusses:

 Analyse the following Trusses:

(1)      A cantilever truss has been as shown in the figure. Find the value of W which will produces a force of magnitudes 15 kN  in the member AB.

(2)        A cantilever truss is loaded as shown in the figure. Find the nature and magnitudes of the forces in each link.

(3)      A cantilever truss has been as shown in the figure. Find the value of W which will produces a force of magnitudes 15 kN  in the member AB.

(4)      A truss has been loaded as shown in the figure. Find the nature and the magnitudes of the forces in the links BC, CH and GH by the methods of sections.

(5) A truss has been loaded as shown in the figure. Find the internal forces in each of the beam.

(6)      A truss has been loaded as shown in the figure. Find the forces in each member and tabulate them by any methods.

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THEORETICAL QUESTIONS ON SIMPLE TRUSSES part-3

QUESTION BANK : ENGINEERING MECHANICS PART-2

QUESTION BANK : ENGINEERING MECHANICS

 

THEORETICAL QUESTIONS ON SIMPLE TRUSSES

SHORT QUESTIONS: TOPIC - TRUSS ANALYSIS

1)      What is a truss? Classify them with proper diagrams.

2)      State the differences between a perfect truss and an imperfect truss.

3)      Distinguish between a deficient truss and a redundant truss.

4)      Write the Maxwell’s Truss Equation.

5)      What are the assumptions made, while finding out the forces in the various members of a truss?

6)      What are the differences between a simply supported truss and a cantilever truss? Discuss the method of finding out reactions in both the cases.

Analyse the following Trusses:

 

(1)      Analyse the Truss by the method of Joints.

(2) Find the internal forces on the links 1, 2 and 3 by the method of Sections.

(3) Determine the magnitude and the nature of the forces in the members BC, GC and GF of the given truss.

(4)   A truss of span 10 m is loaded as shown in the figure. Find the forces in all the links by any method.






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QUESTION BANK : ENGINEERING MECHANICS PART-2

TOPICS: NUMERICALS ON FORCE SYSTEM- UNIT-1

5) A bar of AB 12 m long rests in horizontal position on two smooth planes as shown in the figure. Find the distance X at which 100 kN is to be placed to keep the bar in equilibrium.

 

6) A light string ABCDE whose extremity A is fixed, has weights W₁ & W₂ attached to it at B & C. It passes round a small smooth pulley at D carrying a weight of 300 N at the free end E as shown in figure. If in the equilibrium position, BC is horizontal and AB & CD make 150° and 120° with BC, find (i) Tensions in the strings and (ii) magnitudes of W₁ & W₂  

 

7) Find reactions at all the contact points if weight of P is 200 N & diameter is 100 mm, where as weight of Q is 500 N and diameter is 180 mm.

 

8) Determine the force P required to begin rolling the uniform cylinder of mass (m) over the obstacle of height (h) as shown in the figure.  

 

9) A roller of weight 500 N has a radius of 120 mm and is pulled over a step of height 60 mm by a horizontal force P. Find magnitudes of P to just start the roller over the step.

 

10) Two identical rollers each of weight 100 N are supported by an inclined plane of 30° with horizontal and a vertical wall as shown in the figure. Find all the reactions at each contact point.

 

11) A smooth cylinder of radius 500 mm rests on a horizontal plane and is kept from rolling by a rope OA of 1000 mm length. A bar AB of length 1500 mm and weight 1000 N is hinged at point A and placed against the cylinder of negligible weight. Determine the tension in the rope.

 

12)      A flat belt connects pulley B, which drives a pulley A; attached to an electric motor. μ_s =  0.25 and μ_k = 0.2 between both the pulleys and the belt. If maximum allowable tension in the belt is 600 N, determine the largest torque which can be exerted by belt on pulley B.

      

13)       Two blocks of mass MA & MB are kept at equilibrium as shown in the figure. The friction between the block B & the floor is 0.35 and between the blocks is 0.3, then find the minimum force P to just move the block B.

QUESTION BANK : ENGINEERING MECHANICS

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Unit: 1 (Force System)

VERY SHORT QUESTIONS (2 marks):

1)      What is force & force system?

2)      What is equilibrium? What are the conditions of equilibrium?

3)      Distinguish between coplanar concurrent & coplanar non-concurrent forces.

4)      State & explain the law of transmissibility of forces.

5)      What is moment? What is couple?

6)      State and explain the Varignon’s theorem of moment.

7)      What are the characteristics of couple?

8)      What are parallel forces?

9)      State Lami’s theorem of equilibrium of forces?

10)  Where do we can apply Lami’s theorem?

11)  Explain the terms Resultant & equilibrant?

12)  What is friction? On what factors frictional force depends?

13)  Explain the term Ladder Friction?

14)  What is angle of friction, angle of repose, co-efficient of friction?

15)  Explain the concept of Limiting friction.

16)  Explain the cone of friction. Also discuss it’s physical significance?

17)  State Coulomb’s law of dry friction?

18)  What is a belt drive? Explain the term angle of contact or lap angle.

19)  Explain the term Torque, Couple and Moment?

20)  Distinguish between static and dynamic friction.

BROAD QUESTIONS (5 marks / 10 marks)

1)      Classify Force systems with proper examples.

2)      State & prove Lami’s theorem.

3)      State & prove Varignon’s theorem of moment.

4)      What is the resultant of a force system? How can we determine the resultant?

5)      What are support reactions? Describe different types of loading.

6)      What is distributed loading? Explain UDL & UVL with examples.

7)      What is a fixed supports? Explain the term reaction moment?

8)      State & explain the principle of superposition.

9)      Show that a force at a point can be reduced to a force-couple system at another point on the same plane.

10)  What is the meaning of Equivalent System?

11)  What is Free Body Diagram or FBD?

12)  Prove that for a belt drive, (T₁/T₂) = e^μθ

 

NUMERICALS: (10 marks)

(1) Two rigid rod BA & CA are joined together at point A as shown in the figure. Now a weight of 200 kN is placed at point A. Find the reaction forces in the rod AB & AC.

    [ R_AC = 292.38 kN,  R_AB = 155.57 kN]

 

(2) A weight of 40 kN is suspended by two cables as shown in the figure. Find the tensions T₁ & T₂ in the cables. 

 3) On a square plate ABCD four forces are applied as shown in the figure. Find the resultant of the force system.

         

          4) A uniform bar AB length L and weight W lies in a plane with its ends resting on two smooth surfaces on OA and OB. Find angle θ for equilibrium of bar.

             [θ = 30° ]

INTELLIGENT OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS IN MECHANICS

1) A cantilever beam of square cross-section (100 mm X 100 mm) and length 2 m carries a concentrated load of 5 kN at its free end. What is the maximum normal bending stress at its mid-length cross-section?

(a) 10 N/mm²
(b) 20 N/mm²
(c) 30 N/mm²
(d) 40 N/mm²

2) A hollow shaft of outside diameter 40 mm and inside diameter 20 mm is to replaced by a solid shaft of 30 mm diameter. If the maximum shear stresses induced in the two shafts are to be equal, what is the ratio of the maximum resistible torque in the hollow to that of solid shaft?

(a) 10/9
(b) 20/9
(c) 30/9
(d) 40/9

(3) A cannonball is fired from a tower 80 m above the ground with a horizontal velocity of 100 m/s. Determine the horizontal distance at which the ball will hit the ground. (take g=10 m/s²)

(a) 400 m,
(b) 280 m,
(c) 200 m,
(d) 100 m.

(4) Water drops from a tap at the rate of four droplets per second. Determine the vertical separation between two consecutive drops after the lower drop attained a velocity of 4 m/s. Take g=10 m/s².

(a) 0.49 m
(b) 0.31 m
(c) 0.50 m
(d) 0.30 m

ME-101 MOCK QUESTION PAPER; ENGINEERING MECHANICS

Vivekanand Institute of Technology & Science; Ghaziabad
PRE-SEMESTER EXAMINATION (odd SEMESTER 2009-10)
B.Tech…first Semester

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Sub Name: Engineering Mechanics Max. Marks: 100
Sub Code: EME-102 Max. Time: 3: 00 Hr

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(i) This paper is in three sections, section A carries 20 marks, section B carries 30 marks and section C carries 50 marks.
(ii) Attempt all the questions. Marks are indicated against each question
(iii) Assume missing data suitably if any.

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Group A

Q.1 Answer the following questions as per the instructions 2x20=20
Choose the correct answer of the following questions:

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(i) The magnitudes of the force of friction between two bodies, one lying above the another depends upon the roughness of the
(a) Upper body;                 (b) Lower body
(c) Both the bodies               (d) The body having more roughness

(ii)The moment of inertia of a circular section of diameter D about its centroidal axis is given by the expression
(a) π(D)⁴/16               (b) π(D)⁴/32
(c) π(D)⁴/64               (d) π(D)⁴/4

Fill in the blanks in the following questions:

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(iii)The distance of the centroid of an equilateral triangle with each side(a) is …………. From any of the three sides.
(iv)Poisson’s ratio is defined as the ratio between ……………………. and
………………………… .
(v)If two forces of equal magnitudes P having an angle 2Ө between them,
then their resultant force will be equal to ________ .

Match the following columns for the following two parts:

(vi) Match the column I to an entry from the column II:

COLUMN – I	COLUMN - II
(i) BMD of an UDL	(a) stored strain energy per unit volume
(ii) Resilience is	(b) brittle materials
(iii) Bulk Modulus	(c) parabolic in nature
(iv) Yield Point	(d) volumetric stress & strain
	(e) Ductile materials
	(f) Shear stress

(vii) Match the Following columns:

COLUMN – I	COLUMN - II
(i) Square of side (b)	(p) π b4 / 64
(ii) Equilateral Triangle of side (b)	(q) b4 / 12
(iii) Circle of diameter (b)	(r) b4/ 36
(iv) Isosceles right angle triangle of base (b)	(s) b4/(32√3)
	(e) Ductile materials
	(f) Shear stress

Column II gives the value of Moment of Inertia Ixx about a centroidal axis.

Choose correct answer for the following parts:

(viii) Statement 1:
In the yielding zone, strain increases even if stress is decreased.

Statement 2:
At yielding point, the deformation becomes plastic by nature.

(i) Statement 1 is true, Statement 2 is true.
(ii) Statement 1 is true, Statement 2 is true and they are unrelated with
each other
(iii) Statement 1 is true, statement 2 is false.
(iv) Statement 1 is false, Statement 2 is false.

(ix) Statement 1:
For two identical mass, one of which lies on a horizontal plane and another is kept at an inclined plane having same co-efficient of friction, still frictional forces differs from each other.

Statement 2:
Frictional force always depends upon the magnitude of the normal force.

(i) Statement 1 is true, Statement 2 is true.
(ii) Statement 1 is true, Statement 2 is true and they are unrelated with
each other
(iii) Statement 1 is true, statement 2 is false.
(iv) Statement 1 is false, Statement 2 is false.

Choose the correct word/s.
(x) In a truss if the no.of joints (j) is related with no. of links (m) by the equation m > 2j- 3, then it is an example of (redundant/ deficient/ perfect) Truss.

SECTION-B

Q.2: Answer any three parts of the followings: 10X3=30

(a)	Find the shear force and moment equation for the beam as shown in the figure. Also sketch SFD (shear force diagram) and BMD (bending moment diagram)
(b) Explain and prove “the parallel axis theorem of moment of inertia.” Also find the centroid of the following composite area.
(c) Find the centroidal Moment of Inertia of the following shaded area.
	(d) Two cylinders P and Q rest in a channel as shown in fig. below. The cylinder P has a diameter of 100 mm and weighs 200 kN, where as the cylinder Q has a diameter of 180 mm and weighs 500 kN. Find the support reactions at all the point of contact.
(e)	Two blocks A and B of weights 1 kN and 2 kN respectively are in equilibrium as Shown in the figure. If the co-efficient of friction everywhere is 0.3, find the force P required to move the block B.

SECTION C:

(3) Answer any two parts of the following 5X2=10

(a) A simply supported beam of circular cross section of radius 4 cm having a length 2 m long in concentrated load of 5 kN (acting perpendicular to the axis of beam) at a point 0.75 m from one of the supports. Determine
(i) the maximum fiber stress (σ_b)_max); (ii) the stress in a fiber located at a distance of 1 cm from the top of the beam at mid-span.

(b) Describe the procedure of Truss Analysis by Section method.

(c)A flywheel is making 180 rpm and after 20 second it is running at 120 rpm.
How many revolutions will it make and what time will elapse before it stops, if the retardation is constant.


(4) Answer any one part of the following: 1X10=10

(a) Explain the terms polar moment of inertia and radius of gyration.
Derive the area moment of inertias for a quarter circle of radius R.

(b) Analyse the following truss:



(5) Answer any three question;                           3X10=30

(a) Compare the stress – strain diagrams of a ductile material to that of a brittle Material. Also explain the term poisson's ratio and modulus of rigidity.

(b) Explain and prove the “Torsion Equation” (T/J)=(τ/r)=(Gθ/L). What is
called as Section Modulus?

(c) A cylinder of radius R, length L and total mass M is suspended vertically
from the floor, if the modulus of elasticity of the cylinder be E, find the total
deflection and maximum stress induced due to self weight.

(d) A cylinder of 200 mm diameter is subjected to a twisting moment of
250 kN-m, the length of the cylinders is 1 m, if the modulus of rigidity of the
cylinder material be 150 GPa, find the maximum shear stress induced in the
cylinder. Also find the total angular deformation.