1996 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

MP280 Construction Materials
3 hours per week Prerequisites: MP180 Construction
Materials Instruction: lectures, tutorials, laboratory work
Assessment: examinations 70%, reports 30%
Objectives
To extend students' knowledge of material behaviour
relevant to building construction.
Content
Detailed treatment of selected materials such as alloy steels,
structural steels, high strength weldable steels, stainless
steels, copper alloys, aluminium alloys, plastics and rubber
in civil engineering and building applications. Ceramics
properties, types, effects of residual stresses and contraction,
glasses, types of modes of failure. Corrosion and
deterioration causes, prevention and minimisation. Materials
ferrous metals, non-ferrous metals, light metals, polymers,
paints. Non-destructive testing general principles, types,
uses.
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S Recommended reading
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a Flinn, R.A. and Trojan, P.K., Engineering Matends and Their
E. Applications. 3rd edn, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1986
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MP286 Building Materials 2
4 hours per week Assessment: assignment and examination
Objective
To extend students' knowledge of material behaviour
relevant to building construction.
Content
Detailed treatment of behaviour of selected materials used in
building steels, high strength weldable steels, aluminium
alloys, plastics and rubbers used for cladding and pipe
systems.
Joining methods principles of behaviour of the different
joining systems including welding, adhesive bonding,
soldering, brazing, mechanical fasteners, comparative costs
of various jointing methods.
For references and recommended reading see MP183.
MP71 1 Mass Transfer
9 credit points 4 hours per week Hawthorn
Assessment: laboratory work, assignment and examination
Objectives
To provide the student with an insight into the theory, and
physical reality of diffusional mass transfer.
Content
Mass transfer theory Fick's Law of diffusion; steady state
diffusion in single-phase systems; multicomponent and
transiennt diffusion; determination of diffusion coefficients.
Convective mass transfer; mass transfer coefficients;
interphase mass transfer. Theory and design of continuous
differential contactors; mass transfer with chemical
reactions; mass, heat and momentum transfer analogies. Gas
absorption, 1iquidAiquid extraction.
Recommended reading
Treybal, R.E., Mass Transfp/ Operations. 3rd edn, New York,
McGraw-Hill, 1980
Perry, R.H. and Green, D., PT's Chemical Engineering
Handbook. 6th edn, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1984
MP71 2 Unit Operations
10 credit points 4 hours per week Hawthorn
Assessment: practical work and examination
Objectives
To impart understanding of physical phenomena involving
particles, and the importance of these in chemical
manufacturing.
Content
Fluid/particle systems hydraulic classification, hindered
settling, thickening. Flow through packed beds, sand filters,
fluidisation, pneumatic and hydraulic conveying, filtration
and centrifuging.
Handling and transport of powders, powder mixing,
crushing, grinding and screening.
Recommended reading
Coulson, J.M., Richardson, J.F. and Backhurst, J.R., Chemical
Enginea'ng, vol. 2.3rd edn, Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1991
MP71 3 Chemical Engineering Design 1
8 credit points 4 hours per week Hawthorn
Assessment: assignments an examination
Objectives
To instruct students in the fundamentals of chemical
engineering thermodynamic and the basic principles of mass
and energy balances as a basis for further study in chemical
process technology.
Content
Basic design techniques mass and energy balance calculations;
flowsheets; stoichiometry calculations involving bypass, recycle
and purge; combustion and heat engine calculations.
Chemical engineering thermodynamics physical
equilibrium, bubble and dewpoint relations, phase diagrams,
activity and activity coefficients, Gibbs Duhem equation,
chemical reaction equilibria, heats of reaction and mixing.
Recommended readings
Felder, R.M. and Rousseau, R.W., Elementaty Principles of
Chemical Processes. 2nd edn, New York, Wiley, 1986
Smith, J.M. and Van Ness, H.C., Introduction to Chemical
Engineering %modynamics. 4th edn, New York, McGraw-Hill,
1987
MP71 4 Stagewise Processes
12 credit points 5 hours per week Hawthorn
Assessment: practical work and examination
0 b jectives
To give students a general understanding of industrial mass
transfer operations, and of stagewise methods for the design
of mass transfer equipment.