Acquirement of fundamental principles of kinematics, statics and kinetics of solids and fluids in consistent description. Application to fundamental problems of mechanical modeling. Development of practice-oriented problem formulations and computational methods.

Mechanical stress, deformations and strains, law of elasticity, elastic deflection curve. Hydrostatic uplift, resulting hydrostatic forces. Application of the principle of virtual displacements. Kinematics and kinetics of the mass point, the rigid body and of fluids. Conservation of momentum, conservation of angular momentum. Energy theorem, Bernoulli’s equation of hydrodynamics. Linear vibrations of both SDOFs and MDOFs.

written and oral

Christian Bucher: Mechanik für IngenieurInnen 

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