1996 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

MM331 Engineering Materials
4 credit points 2 hours per week Hawthorn
A third year subject in the Bachelor of Engineering
(Manufacturing)
Content
Fracture mechanics plane strain fracture toughness testing;
validity; examples of KIC analysis. Fatigue: lifee calculations
and analyses. Fibre composite materials: fabrication and
manufacture; metal matrix composites; high temperatures,
high strength composites. Design of cellular solids, including
the facing core, and their adhesion: analytical design;
empirical design; critical failure modes. Laminate composite
analysis; analysis using computer packages. Advanced
ceramics: characterisation of ceramics; surface flaws;
statistical distribution; Webull modulus; strengthening of
ceramics; design and selection of advanced ceramics for
structural and high temperature applications. Surface
engineering: nature of wear; testing and evaluation for wear
resistance; quantitative description of wear; review of
industrial systems for modification of surfaces.
Recommended reading
Ashby, M.F. and Jones, D.R.H., Engineering Materials. vols I
(1986) and I1 (1988), London, Pergamon Press
Metals Handbook. 9th edn, ASM, Metals Park, Ohio, U.S.A., 1985
Broek, D., Elementary Engineering Fracture Mechanics. 4th rev.
edn, Boston, Nijhoff, 1987
Hertzberg, R.W., Deformation and Fracture Mechanics of
Engineering Materials. 3rd edn, New York, Wiley, 1989
MM340 Applied Mechanics
7 credit points 3 hours per week Hawthorn
Assessment: a three hour examination, assignment/
laboratory
A third year subject in the Bachelor of Engineering
(Mechanical)
Content
Solid mechanics
Extension of earlier studies of stress, strain and deflection of
elastic systems and introduce the concepts of yielding,
failure and deformation beyond the elastic limit.
Vibrations
A basic course in vibrations covering the response of one,
two and multi degree of freedom discrete linear system (with
and without damping) to free, transient and steady state
harmonic forcing.
Recommended reading
Benham, P.P. and Crawford, R.J., Mechanics of Engineering
Materials. Harlow, England, Longmans Scientific & Technical
1987
Thomson, W.T., Theory of Vibrations with Applications. 3rd edn,
London, Unwin Hyman, 1988
Fenner, R.T., Mechanics of Solids. Oxford, Blackwell, 1989
Alexander, J.M., Strength of Materials. Chichester, Horwood,
1981
Ford, H., Advanced Mechanics of Materials. London, Longman,
1963
Bishop, R.E.D., Vibration. 2nd edn, Cambridge, Cambridge
Univ. Press, 1979
Rao, SS., Mechanical Vibrations. 3rd edn, Reading, Mass.,
Addison-Wesley, 1990
Steidel, R.F. An Introduction to Mechanical Vibrations. 3rd edn,
New York, Wiley, 1989 (particularly for tutorial examples)
MM341 Mechanics and Machine Systems
14 credit points six hours per week Hawthorn
A third year subject in the Bachelor of Engineerng
(Mechanical)
Objectives
This subject is designed to provide students with a basic
course on structural design, vibration analysis and classical
analysis and control of linear systems.
Content
Mechanics of Materials
Deflection of statically determinate and in determinate
beams. Deflection and forces in plane structures. Buckling
and instability of columns, rings and tubes. Torsion and
shear in thin walled open sections.
Mechanics of Machines
Free and forced vibration of single DOF system with linear
viscous damping.
Transmissibility and Dyamic magnification. Harmonic
forcing, Fourier series representation and superposition.
Transient response to impulsive and step inputs. Natural
frequencies and mode shapes. Multi-degree of freedom
systems. Matrix representation. Real and complex eigen
values and eigen vectors.
Control Engineering
Mathematical modelling of physical systems. Transfer
functions. Linearisation. Block diagrams of closed-loop
systems. Block diagram algebra. Transient analysis.
Response of first and second order systems to a subject
impulse and subject step inputs. Stability analysis.
Frequency response analysis.
Representation on logarithmic plots.
Recommended reading
Benham, P.P. and Crawford, R.J., Mechanics of Engineering
Materials.Harlow, England, Longman Scientific and Technical,
1987 Fenner, R.T. Mechanics of Solids. Oxford, Blackwell, 1989
Hsieh, Y.Y., Elementary Theory of Structures. 3rd edn, Englewood
Cliffs, N.J., Prentice Hall, 1988
Rao, SS., Mechanical Vibrations. 3rd edn, Reading, Mass.,
Addison-Wesley, 1993
Steidel, R.F., An Introduction to Mechanical Vibration. 3rd edn,
New York, Wiley, 1989 (particularly for tutorial examples)
Thomson, W.T., Theory of Vibrations with Applications. 3rd edn,
London, Unwin Hyman, 1988
Dransfield, P., Sym
and Cond. Part 1 & 2, Monash University, 1994
Ogata, K., Modern Control Engineering. 2nd edn, Englewood
Cliffs, N.J., Prentice Hall, 1990
Palm, W.J., Control Systems Engimng. New York, Wiley, 1986