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Part B 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.
Textbook
Part A Solid mechanics
Benharn, P.P and Crawford, R.J. Mechanics of Engineering Materials.
Harlow, England: Longrnans Scientific & Technical 1987
References
Part A Solid mechanics
Fenner, R.T. Mechanics of Solids. Oxford: Blackwell. 1989
Alexander, J.M. Strength of Materials. Chichester. Ellis Homewood
Series in Engineering Science, 1981
Ford, H. Advanced Mechanics of Materials. London: Longman. 1963
Textbook
Part B Vibrations
Thornson, WT. Theory of Vibrations with Applications. 3rd ed,
London: Unwin Hyrnan, 1988
References
Part B Vibrations
Bishop, R.E.D. Vibration. 2nd ed, Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press,
1979
Rao, 5.5.. Mechanical Vibrations. 2nd ed, Reading, Mass.: Addison
Weslqr, 1990
Steidel, R.F. An lntmduction to Mechanical Vibration. 3rd ed, New
York: Wiley, 1989 (particularly for tutorial examples)
MM341 Mechanics and Machine Systems
No. of hours per week: six houa
This subject consists of three parts:
MM341A Mechanics of Materials;
MM341 B Mechanics of Machines;
MM341 C Control Engineering.
MM341A Mechanics of Materials
No. of hours per week: two hours
Subject aims and description
A course that concentrates on structural analysis, buckling
instability and complex bending.
Beam deflections. Review of elastic curve equation for
flexural loading, and beam deflection. Deflection of statically
determinate beams by integration, discontinuity functions
and superposition methods. Deflection and reactions in
statically indeterminate beams by discontinuity functions and
superposition methods. Plane structures. Deflection and
forces in plane structures by strain energy and moment
distribution methods or slope deflection equations. Buckling
and instability. Short, intermediate and long columns, with
and without eccentric loading; buckling of circular rings and
tubes. Torsion and shear in thin walled open sections in
unsymmetrical bending and the shear centre.
References
Benham, PP and Crawford, R.J. Mechanics of Engineering Materials.
Fenner, R.T. Mechanics of Solids. Oxford: Blackwell, 1989
Harlw: Longrnans Scientific and Technical. 1988
Hsieh. Y.Y. Elementary Theory of Structures. 3rd ed. Englewood Cliffs,
N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1988
MM341 B Mechanics of Machines
No. of hours per week: two hours
Subject aims and description
A basic course in vibrations covering the response of 1, 2
and multi degree of freedom discrete linear systems (with
and without damping) to free, transient and steady state
harmonic forcing.
Single DOF systems. Free vibration of single DOF system with
linear viscous damping. Forced vibrations of single degree of
freedom. Harmonic excitation - of the mass - of the base.
Resonance and the effect of damping.
Transmissibility and Dyamic magnification. Examples of
vibration isolation. Harmonic forcing, Fourier series
representation and superposition. Transient response to
impulsive and step inputs, arbitrary excitation by Duhamel's
integral. DOF Systems. Natural frequencies and mode shapes.
Examples - spring coupled systems - mass coupled
systems. Forced harmonic response of systems with damping.
Multi-degree of freedom systems. Equations of motion;
system modelling with examples by Newton's Law, work and
energy, and Lagrange's method. Matrix representation of the
equations of motion; mass, stiffness and damping matrices.
Real and complex eigen values and eigen vectors. Examples
of linear and torsional systems. Harmonic forcing.
References
Rao, 5.5. Mechanical Vibrations 2nd ed, Reading, Mass.: Addison
Wesley, 1990
Steidel, R.F An Introduction to Mechanical Vibration. 3rd ed, New
York: Wiley, 1989 (particularly for tutorial examples)
Thomson, W.T. Theory of Vibrations with Applications. 3rd ed,
London: Unwin Hyman. 1988
MM341 C Control Engineering
No. of houa per week: two hours
Subject aims and description
An introduction to the application of classical methods for
the analysis of the dynamic performance of linear systems.
Introduction to closed-loop control. Definitions, terminology
and examples. Mathematical modelling of physical systems.
Review of complex variables and functions. Transfer
functions. Linearisation. Block diagrams of closed-loop
systems. Block diagram algebra. Manipulation and derivation
of transfer functions for open and closed-loop linear systems.
Transient analysis. Revision and application of the Laplace
transform. The inverse transform and the time solution of
linear models. Response of first and second order systems to
a unit impulse and unit step inputs. Response improvement
of second order systems by velocity feedback (proportional
plus derivative control). Stability analysis. Routh's stability
criterion for linear control systems. Frequency response
analysis. Steady state solution to sinusoidal inputs and the
frequency response function G (jw). Real and imaginary
components; magnitude and phase.
Representation on logarithmic plots - Bode diagrams. Basic
factors, plotting procedure, applications to the analysis of the
performance of linear control systems.
References
Dransfield, P. Systems and Control. Part 1 and 2. Monash University,
1988
Ogata, K. Modem Control Engineering. Englewood Cliffs. N.J.:
Prentice-Hall, 1970
Palm, W.J. Contml Systems Engineering. New York: Wiley, 1986
MM350 Design for Manufacture
No. of hours per week: four hours
Assessment: examination, assignments and
project work
A third year subject in the degree of Bachelor of
Engineering (Manufacturing).
Subject aims and description
Design of Tools for Metalworking: cutting tools, high
removal tools, single points, multipoint and special form
tools design.
Design of diesets for sheetmetal work; blanking, bending.
deep drawing diesets design.