1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

Recommended reading
Dieter, G.E., Engineering Design A Materials and Processing
Approach. 2nd edn, New York, McGraw-Hill , 1991
Juvmall, R.C. and Marshek, K.M. Fundamentals of Machine
Component Design, 2nd edn, New York, Wiley, 1991
Rohner, P., Industrial Hydraulic Control A Recommended Reading
fir Fluid Power Technicians, 3rd edn, Melbourne, A.E. Press, 1988
SAA HB6-1988 Design Standards for Mech. Eng. Students. Nth.
Sydney, Standards Assoc. of Australia, 1988
Shigley, J.E., Mechanical Engineering Design Metric Edition. New
York, McGraw-Hill, 1986
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MM460 Ergonomics ! M- ' -'
8 credit points l 3 hours per week l Hawthorne Assessment:
assignments and laboratory '1
A fourth year subject in the Bachelor of Engineering
(Mechanical)
Objectives
At the completion of this subject students should be able to
demonstrate competence in ergonomic Assessment: of
workplaces.
Content
The major assignment for this subject will take the form of
an ergonomic design of a workplace.
Ergonomics systems concepts application of modelling
processes to design solutions and problem analysis.
Human body. Kinesiology lower body elements,
locomotion and gait cycle in walking, running and jogging.
Engineering psychology memory modelling, mental loading,
application to task design, attitude survey design and
administration, Assessment: of physical quantities using
psychophysics methodology.
Physical environmental factors. Illumination design criteria,
apI;lication of lighting standards and codes to varh
workdace situations. Noise application ..
of standards, codes
and regulations, hearing conservation processes and programs.
Acceleration sources and effects on human body elements,
impact loading effects, alleviation of dynamic loading.
Human-environment-workplace interface. Workplace
requirements for screen based equipment, hand tools, work
benches and desks, seating. Strain injury analysis application
to manual material handling, slipping, tripping and falling
incidents, design criteria, relevant standards. Occupational
overuse injury types, origins, task design criteria, control
measures.
Occupational health and safety issues. Occurrence analysis
introduction to accident causation philosophy, energy
damage model, generalised time sequence model, Rowe's risk
estimation model, application of the models to accident
investigations. Safety health and safety program design, H.
and S. management principles, injury claims management.
Recommended reading
Accident Compensation Act. 1985
Occupational Health & Safety Act. Melbourne, Victorian
Government Publishing Office, 1989
Sanders, M.S. and McCormick, E.J., Human Factors in
Engineering and Design. 7th edn, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1993
Victorian Department of Labour. Manual Handling Regulations and
Code of Practice. Melbourne, Dept. of Labour, 1988
MM470 Computer Interfacing and
Microprocessors
5 credit points l 2 hours per week l Hawthorn l Assessment:
project work and examination
A fourth year subject in the Bachelor of Engineering
(h4anufacturing)
Objectives
To provide students with a sound introduction to basic
computer architecture, interfacing and networking
principles as they relate to advanced manufacturing
technology and mechatronic systems.
Content
Boolean algebra, number systems, Karnaugh maps,
seauential state machines and micro~rocessor architecture.
~imory technology and mapping (iddressing). Computer
bus structures. ~icro~rocessor programming levels
(assembly and machine code), basic operating systems and
compilers. Computer interfacing techniques, isolation and
buffering devices. Amplifiers (analog + PWM),
transformers, A/O and D/A conversion, opto-isolation.
Recommended reading
Madhu, S., Linear Circuit Analysis. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,
Prentice Hall, 1988
Paynter, R., Introductory Electronic Devices and Circuits. 2nd edn,
Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice Hall, 1991
Prestopnik, R., Digital Electronics. Philadelphia, Saunders College
Publishing, 1990
Toncich, D.J., Computer Architecture and Interrfacing to
Mechatronic Systems. Brighton, Vic. Chrystobel Engineering, 1994
MM471 Numerical Engineering ~T~~G,&A-,
4 credit points l 2 hotlrs per week l ~ awthom l Assessment:
tutorial assignments and-examination
A fourth year subject in the Bachelor of Engineering
Qvlechanical)
Ob jectives
To develop an understanding of the mathematics of Finite
Element Analysis and the application of FEA to engineering
problems.
Content
Interpolation of data. Lagrange polynomial. Inner products
and orthogonality. Piecewise linear and quadratic Lagrange
interpolation. Method of weighted residuals for ordinary
differential equations with homogeneous and nonhomogeneous
boundary conditions. Linear and cubic
Hermite basis functions, applications including beam
problems. Three dimension, boundary condition, mesh
generation. Introduction to STRAND 6.1; zone based mesh
generation, linear analysis, dynamic analysis, load and
reaction recovery. Examples and assignments on finite
element analysis, using a microcomputer based finite
element program.
Recommended readings
Burnett, D.S., Finite Element Analysis From Concepts to
Applications. Reading, Mass., Addison-Wesley, 1987
Easton, A., Robb, P. and Singh, M., Approximation and Infinite
Element Method. Swinburne Press, 1993
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