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Fundamental Principles

All theorems and equations in statics are deduced from a few fundamental principles, which, are accepted without mathematical roof, and are known as the principles, or axioms of statics. The principles of statics represent general formulations obtained as a result of a vast number of experiments with and observations of the equilibrium and motion of bodies and which, furthermore, have been consistently confirmed by actual experience. Some of these principles are corollaries of the fundamental laws of mechanics, which will be examined in the course of dynamics. 1st Principle. A free rigid body subjected to the action of two forces can be in equilibrium if, and only if, the two are equal in magnitude collinear, and opposite in direction.

The first principle defines the simplest balanced force system, since we know from experience that a free body subjected to the action of a single force cannot be in equilibrium.

2nd Principle. The action of a given force system on a rigid body remains unchanged if another balanced force system is added to, or subtracted from, the original system.

This principle establishes that two force systems differing from each other by a balanced system are equivalent. Corollary of the 1st and 2nd Principles. The point of application of a force acting on a rigid body can be transferred to any other point on line of action of the force without altering its effect. This is known as the principle of transmissibility.

3rd Principle (the Parallelogram law). Two forces applied at one point of a body have as their resultant a force applied at the same point and represented by the diagonal of a parallelogram constructed with the two given forces as its sides.

4th Principle. To any action of one material body on another there is always an equal and opposite reaction, or, reaction is always equal to action.

5th Principle. (Principle of Solidification). If a freely deformable body subjected to the action of a force system is in equilibrium, the state of equilibrium will not be disturbed if the body solidifies (becomes rigid).

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A Diesel Engine

A Diesel engine is a machine which produces power by burning oil in air which has been quickly compressed to a high pressure by a pis­ton moving in a closed cylinder. The piston is at its lowest position, about to start upwards on its compression stroke. As it moves upwards it compresses the air above it into a smaller and smal­ler volume. If the final volume of the air is one twenty-fifth of its origi­nal volume, the engine is said to have a compression ratio of 25.

Now the piston is in its highest position. Here the air in the cylinder is highly compressed and is also very hot. (Have you not noticed how your bicycle-pump gets hot when you pump up your tyres?) At this stage of the cycle of operation oil is injected into the hot air. The oil ignites instantaneously...The heat of its combustion raises the temperature of the air still higher and so the pressure of the enclosed air is very much increased also.

The piston is therefore forced down again violently. This second stroke of the piston is called the working-stroke.

After reaching the bottom of its working-stroke the piston begins to rise again. Its purpose now is to sweep the products of combustion from the cylinder. So a valve is opened to let the spent gases escape to the exhaust pipe as the piston rises to the top of its third stroke.

The fourth stroke of the piston is downwards again. The exhaust valve is closed and an inlet valve is opened to allow fresh air to refill the cylinder. After four strokes, two up and two down, the cylinder is again in the condition we begin with. We say that it has completed its four-stroke cycle.

A Diesel engine usually has four cylinders which fire in turn. The four pistons are connected to a rotating crankshaft so that the working stroke of one piston is always available to drive the three simultaneously non-working-strokes of the other pistons. The remaining energy of the working-stroke is available for the external work the Diesel engine has to do.

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