436-225 Engineering Design and Materials 1D - Engineering Design for Systems Integrity (Environmental)

Credit Points

Coordinator

Prerequisites

436-103 Engineering Mechanics or 421-103 Engineering Statics and 100-level Mathematics

Pre/corequisites

436-105 Engineering Communications

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

Upon completion students will have gained practice in the skill of designing simple engineering components for structural integrity of environmental systems and be confident with practical work formulated in a graded progression from well delineated problems to dealing with complex and/or vaguely defined design tasks in environmental areas.

Topics covered include; failure modes for engineering systems, theories of failure. Rational assessment of safety factors. Integrity of structures and machines, design against failure. Modelling of complex load-bearing systems in terms of simple engineering components. Design of elements of structures and machines from first principles. Design to resist fatigue, axial tension and compression, combined torsion and bending, and internal pressure (only common metallic materials are considered). Design of bolted and welded joints. Approaches to uncertainty in design problems particularly those related to the environment.

Assessment

Assignments and reports not exceeding 30 pages equivalent; one examination not exceeding three-hours