1996 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

MM225 Solid Mechanics 1
10 credit points 4 hours per week Hawthorn
Assessment: examination and laboratory
A second year subject in the Bachelor of Engineering
(Manufacturing) and (Mechanical)
0 bjectives
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 two
and three dimensional frames and machines.
Analysis of stresses in plane frames.
Analysis of stresses in machines.
Review of beam theory. Combined bending and direct
stress. Composite and curved beams (simple treatment).
Limitations of simple bending theory.
Buckling and instability: Short, intermediate and long
columns and struts with and without eccentric loading.
Euler's theory, Rankine theory, secant formula, eccentric
loading, buckling control.
Elastic strain energy for shear, bending and torsion.
Generalised form of strain energy equation. Impact loading.
Castigliano's theorem for deflection.
Strain energy, Castigliano's theorem for statically
indeterminate structures, principle of stationary total
potential energy, Rayleigh-Ritz method.
Plane stress and strain: Transformations, principal stresses
and strains, maximum shear stresses and strains,
orientations, Mohr's circle, simple 3D cases.
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
won Mises)
Combined loading: Strain gauge and rosettes, beams, shafts,
C frames and thin pressure vessels.
Laboratory Experiments
Combined Bending and Torsion. Mohr's Circle. Straight
and Curved Beams. Frame deflection.
Recommended reading
Higdon et al, Mechanics of Materials, 4th edn, Wiley, 1985
Beer, F.P. and Johnston E.R., Mechanics of Materials, S1 Metric
edn, McGraw-Hill, 1985
Benham, P.P. and Crawford, R.J., Mechanics ofEnginePring
Materials, Longrnan, 1987
Fletcher, D.Q. Mechanics of Materials, Holt-Saunders, 1985
Popov, E.P., Mechanics of Materials, Prentice-Hdl, 1978
MM235 Engineering Materials
10 credit points 4.5 hours per week Hawthorn
Assessment: examination and laboratory
0 b jectives
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
principles 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-Fe3C. Isothermal transformation
diagrams. Cooling curves. Thermal processing. Corburring
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.
Fracture toughness with KJC. Effect of geometry.
Fatigue. Miner's rule. Paris law applied to simple structures.
Environmental failures of polymers: W 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., Matmials Science and Engineering, 3rd edn,
Wiley, 1994
Ashby, M. and Jones, D.R.H., Engineming Matplials, Pergamon
Oxford, Vol. 1, 1986 and Vol. 2, 1988