436-220 Engineering Design and Materials 1

Students will be expected to be familiar with material covered in 436-101 Engineering Mechanics and Materials, 100-level mathematics and 436-105 Engineering Communications.

Unit 1, Engineering Design: Upon completion, students should have gained practice in the skill of designing simple engineering components for structural integrity 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.

Topics covered include failure modes for engineering systems, failure predictors for engineering components under multi-axial stress conditions; rational assessment of safety factors and maximum credible accident; 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, bending and internal pressure (only common metallic materials are considered); design of bolted and welded joints; and approaches to uncertainty in design problems.

Unit 2, Engineering Materials: Upon completion, students should have further developed their understanding of the behaviour of materials, aided by laboratory exercises based on topics covered in 436-l01 Engineering Mechanics and Materials.

Topics covered include dislocations and their relevance to plastic flow; particulate and fibre-reinforced composite materials; recovery, recrystallisation and grain growth in metals; creep; static and dynamic fatigue; and friction and wear.

Assignments and laboratory and technical reports not exceeding 50 pages or equivalent; participation in oral presentations and seminars, two examinations not exceeding two hours each. Completion and submission of satisfactory laboratory reports and assignments is a prerequisite for admission to the written examination. Students will be notified of the weighting of assessment components at the beginning of semester.