1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

Rigid body kinetics
Rigid body kinetics: translation, fixed axis rotation
Rigid body kinetics: plane motion - force, mass, acceleration,
work and energy, impulse and momentum
Recommended reading
Meriam, J.L. and Kraige, L.G., Engineering Mechanics, Dynamics,
3rd edn, Wiley, 1993
Bedford, A. and Fowler, W., Dynamics, Addison-Wesley, 1995
Beer, F.P. and Johnston, E.R., Vector Mechanics for Enginem -
Dymrnics, McGraw-Hill, 1990
MM225 Solid Mechanics 1 6aji
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10 credit poznts 4 hours per week ~awibon Assessment:
examination and laboratory
A second year subject in the Bachelor of Engineering
(Manufacturing) and (Mechanical)
Objectives
To develop the ability to synthesise and solve problems
involving force equilibrium, deformation and stressing of
machine components and structures.
Content
Review of axial, bending, shear and torsion actions in frames
and machines.
Analysis of stresses in plane frames.
Analysis of stresses in machines.
Review of beam theory. Combined bending and direct
stress.
Review of torsion.
Plane stress and strain: Transformations, principal stresses
and strains, maximum shear stresses and strains,
orientations, Mohr's circle, simple 3D cases.
Static indeterminacy in axial loading and torsion.
Stress-strain relationship (Hooke's law). Volumetric strain.
Relationship between elastic constants, E,G K and v.
Failure theories: Maximum shear stress (Tresca) maximum
principal stress (Rankine) and maximum shear strain energy
(Von Mises)
Combined loading: Strain gauge and rosettes, beams, shafts
and C frames.
Laboratory Experiments
Combined Bending and Torsion.
Text
Beer, F.P. and Johnston E.R., Mechanics ofMaterials, SI Metric
2nd edn, McGraw-Hill, 1992
Recommended reading
Higdon et al, Mechanics ofMaterials, 4th edn, Wiley, 1985
Benham, P.P. and Crawford, R.J., Mechanics of Engineering
Materials, Longrnan, 1987
Fletcher, D.Q. Mechanics ofMatatwials, Holt-Saunders, 1985
Popov, E.P., Mechanics of Materials, Prentice-Hall, 1978
MM235 Engineering Materials Do Lll&bd
10 credit points 4.5 hoursper week Hawthorn
Assessment: examination, laboratory and assignments
A second year subject in the Bachelor of Engineering
(Manufacturing and Mechanical).
Objectives
To provide students with an understanding of the
essential properties of the major classes of materials by
explaining their microstructure/property relationships.
To provide students with an understanding of the
~rinci~les of Materials selection based on materials
properties and failure analysis.
To develop communication skills by formal reporting of
experiments carried out in the laboratory.
Content
Metals: Ferrous
Major categories of steeldcast irons and applications
Microstructural phase constituents and property
relationships.
Phase diagram for Fe-Fe,C. Isothermal transformation
diagrams. Cooling curves. Thermal processing. Carburising
and Nitriding. Welding of steels.Materia1 selection for steels.
Metals: Non-ferrous
Aluminium alloys, cast and wrought, copper-based alloys,
high temperature alloys, phase diagrams, microstructure/
properties.
Materials selection.
Plastics and composites
Addition and condensation polymerisation, stereoisomeric
forms. Crystalline and amorphous microstructures, physical
properties
TTT diagrams: polymer additives
Adhesive joining.
Composite. Composites: nature of composite materials,
strength, isostress, isostrain
Failure of Materials
Energy processes involved in fast fracture, toughness of
materials as a design parameter.
Environmental failures of polymers: UV deterioration,
oxidation, solvent attack of plastics. Corrosion of materials.
Friction and wear
Ceramics
Processing of ceramic products.
Ceramic structures, AX. Phase diagrams
Mechanical properties.
Laboratory Experiments
Environmental stress cracking steel. Fatigue. Polymer
Processing.
Recommended reading
Callister, W.D.Jr., Materials Science and Engineering, 3rd edn,
Wiley, 1994
Reference
Ashby, M. and Jones, D.R.H., Enginea'ng Materiah, Pergamon
Oxford, Vol. 1, 1986 and Vol. 2, 1988
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