BTEC Assignment Brief
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma in Manufacturing
Qualification Engineering
Unit or Component
Unit 27: Static Mechanical Principles in Practice
number and title
Learning Aim A: Examine how the forces acting in pin-jointed
Learning aim(s) framed structures influence their structural integrity
(For NQF/RQF only)
Pin jointed frames structures
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You are a second year technical apprentice in a large manufacturing
company producing structural members that are used in a new
construction project. Your supervisor has asked you to carry out some
experiments to find out how beams react to different types of loading,
Vocational Scenario and then to perform a number of calculations to confirm the findings
or Context of the experiments. The experiments and calculations relate to pin-
jointed framed structure.
Task 1 You need to produce a report that demonstrates analytical and
practical skills and use these to explain the effects of loads on pin-
jointed frames, suggesting improvements to the structures.
Figure 1: 13 Member Framework
All members in Figure 1: 13 Member Framework are 3 meters long.
The External Force Value is given based on your student number at
the end of this assignment. Ensure you use the correct values when
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answering this assignment.
To do this:
You have been provided with the above diagram that showing a
framework with 13 members that is supported on one side by a
pin-joint and on the other side a roller.
You need to:
Find your student values and redraw the diagram with the
correct values shown.
Complete checks to find the support reactions and establish
that the framework is stable and statically determinate.
Also, prepare using a suitable scale and annotation a space
diagram for the framework.
Use (1) the method of sections, (2) graphical methods
(including calculations) and (3) analytical methods to
determine support reactions and primary forces in the
central members of a pin jointed structure.
Evaluate the three different techniques you have used to
justify the most appropriate methods of finding the forces in
the central members of the pin jointed structure.
Checklist of evidence A report containing graphical and mathematical modelling relating to
required the analysis of given pin-jointed structures.
Criteria covered by this task:
Unit/Criteria
To achieve the criteria, you must show that you are able to:
reference
27/A.D1 Demonstrate accurately the most appropriate method for finding the forces
in the central members of a pin-jointed framed structure, justifying the
rationale.
27/A.M1 Determine accurately the magnitude and nature of the primary forces acting
in the components of a pin-jointed, statically determinate framed structure.
27/A.P1 Determine graphically the support reactions and primary forces acting in the
members of a pin-jointed, statically determinate framed structure.
27/A.P2 Calculate the support reactions and primary forces acting in the components
of a pin-jointed, statically determinate framed structure.
Sources of information
to support you with Books
this Assignment Andrew Buckenham, Gareth Thomson, Natalie Griffiths, Steve
Singleton, Alan Serplus, Michael Ryan (2016) BTEC Nationals in
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Engineering, Pearson, ISBN 9781292141008
Boyce A., Cooke E., Jones R., Mantovani B., Roberts D., Weatherill B.,
(2010) BTEC Level 3 National Engineering Student Book (Level 3
BTEC National Engineering), Pearson Educational, ISBN 978 1 84690
754 1
Tooley M. and Dingle L. (2010) BTEC National Engineering, Elsevier,
ISBN 978 0 12 382202 4
Websites
uacg.bg/filebank/att_1316.pdf
uacg.bg/filebank/att_1316.pdf
SRC Lecture Notes and Tutorials available on Canvas
Other assessment A diagram of a framework with at least 12 members that are
materials attached to supported on one side by a pin-joint and on the other side a roller.
this Assignment Brief Individual Student Values for External Force acting on Truss.
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STUDENT VALUES
Student External Force
Number Value (KN)
1 8
2 8.5
3 9
4 9.5
5 10
6 10.5
7 11
8 11.5
9 12
10 12.5
11 13
12 13.5
13 14
14 14.5
15 15
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