MECHANICS I


General Info


  • Course Title: Mechanics I
  • Course Code: NAOME1103
  • Semester: 1st
  • Course Type: G.B.1
  • Weekly Teaching Hours: 4 (Lectures)
  • Credits (ECTS): 5
  • Offered to ERASMUS+ students: No
  • Course Website: https://eclass.uniwa.gr/courses/NA261/
  • Professors: P. Vouthounis


Course Content / Syllabus


Introduction. Kind of loads and types of structures. Centers of gravity and centroids of areas and volumes. Rigid bodies: Forces, Moments, moment of a force about an axis, equivalent systems of forces. Beams and Frames: Calculation of reaction forces, axial forces, shear forces and bending moments (N,Q,M) diagrams. Trusses: Calculation of axial forces, method of nodes equilibrium, method of Ritter sections. Friction: Static and kinetic friction. Analysis of complex structures and eD structures. Moment of inertia, polar inertia, Steiner’s theorem, transformation relations, principal axes.


Course Outline



  1. G.B. = General Background, S.B. = special background, S.: Specialised.↩︎