1996 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

Content
Thermodynamic properties, basic concepts and systems.
Forms of energy and energy storage covering areas of:
potential, kinetic, internal energy, enthalpy and energy
transfer including heat, mechanical, chemical, fluid. Energy
equations: non flow, steady flow, continuity, Bernoullis
equation. Perfect gas laws and polytropic processes.
Heat transfer: conduction and convection, combined
conduction and convection, radiation.
Power station plant: vapours, processes and cycles.
Machines: reciprocating engines (spark ignition,
compression ignition), turbines, levers, gears, pulleys and
belts, gearboxes, dynamometry. Torque power and
efficiency.
Power transmission: belts and elements.
Practical Experiments
Belt Friction. Astron Engine Test. Sundial. Steam Plant.
Recommended reading
Kinsky, R., Heat Engineering: An Introduction to
i'%ermodynamics, 3rd edn, McGraw-Hill, 1989
Rogers, G.F.C. and Mayhew, Y.R., Thermodynamic and
Transport Properties of Fluids, 4th edn, Oxford, Basil Blackwell,
1988
MM1 69 Services
3 hours per week (sem l), 2 hours (sem 2), Instruction:
lectures, tutorials, field excursions and laboratory tests
Assessment: examinations 80%, assessed work 20%
A first year subject in the Bachelor of Technology (Building
Surveying)
Content
Tks subject is intended to provide students with an
understanding of services such as water (domestic hot water
and cold), electrical, space heating, sewerage; as required in
domestic dwellings, together with the scientific basis of such
service systems including a knowledge of thermodynamics
and electricity.
Recommended reading
Pethebridge, K. and Neeson, I., Australian Electrical Wiring
Practice, 4th edn, Sydney, McGraw-Hill, 1992
Schuder, C.B. Energ~ Engineering Fundamentals, New York, Van
Nostrand, Reinhold, 1983
Stein, B. et al. Mechanical and Electrical Equipmentfor Buildings,
7th edn, New York, Wiley, 1986
MM1 80 Construction Materials
3 hours per week Hawthorn Instruction: lectures,
tutoriah, laboratory work Assessment: examination 80%,
reports 20%
A second year subject in the Bachelor of Engineering
(Manufacturing) and (Mechanical)
Content
This subject is intended to give students an understanding of
the behaviour of building materials such as timbers, bricks
and blocks, cement and concrete, bituminous materials so
that they can determine whether traditional materials are
being used correctly and appraise new materials.
This subject also provides an introduction to other materials
used in buildings, and joining methods.
Recommended reading
Jastrzebski, Z.D., The Nature and Properties of Engineering
Mat&ls, 3rd edn, N.Y., Wiley, 1987
Van Vlack, L.H., Materialsfor Engineering. Reading, Mass.,
Addison-Wesley, 1982
MM21 5 Machine Dynamics 1
10 credit points 4 hours per week Hawthorn
Assessment: examination and tests
A second year subject in the Bachelor of Engineering
(Manufacturing) and @vfechanical)
0 b jectives
To develop an understanding of and a functional familiarity
with the physical principles and mathematical instruments
that form the basis of the engineering analysis of the
dynamic behaviour of particles and rigid bodies in plane
motion.
Content
Kinematics of a particle
Rectilinear motion - review, plane motion, rectangular
coords, normal and tangential coords, polar coords.
Kinetics of a particle in plane motion
Kinetics of a particle in plane motion using F = ma, work
and energy, impulse and momentum.
Rigid body kinematics
relative velocity, instant centres, relative acceleration.
Analysis of mechanisms; degrees of freedom, four bar
chains, Grashof mechanisms.
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 Mechanicsfor Engineers -
Dynamics, McGraw-Hill, 1990