MECHANICS

This course is a complement to the material technology course (ME 203). It is designed to complete the engineering knowledge necessary for prosthetics and orthotics practice. The course covers basic concepts of statics, stress analysis and fluid mechanics. The statics section covers the basics terminologies and units, force systems and their equilibrium. This is followed by the stress analysis of the solid bodies under various types of loading, tension, compression, torsion, bending and shear in beams, buckling, combined loading and fatigue and failure. The third part deals with a simple introduction to fluid mechanics such as basic concepts, fluid properties and the simple equations of fluid statics and dynamics