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~ ~ 2 4 Electronics 0 and Measurement
Systems
No. of hours per week: two hours for two
semesters
Subject aims and description
This subject is taken in two parts: electronics and
instrumentation and measurement systems, both of which run
for two hours per week for one semester, and is common for
all degree students in the School of Mechanical and
Manufacturing Engineering.
Electronics
Digital electronics and microcomputers - introduction to
computers; binary, octal, and hexadecimal numbers; BCD
numbers; binary arithmetic; two's complement notation; bit
grouping; basic digital devices - logic gates, combining logic
gates; flip flops and latches; multiplexers and demultiplexers;
semiconductor memories; introduction to microcomputers;
simplified microcomputer operation.
Linear amplifiers - introduction to BJT amplifiers;
characteristics of amplifiers; consideration of functions of
components of simple single transient amplifiers; inpuvoutput
resistance; multi-stage amplifiers; bandwidth product; simple
Bode plots; operation amplifiers.
g Transducers - active and passive transducers; thermocouple,
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Piezoelectric, photoelectric, optical, resistive, capacitive,
inductive.
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Communications - modulation - amplitude, frequency, pulse
Y code.
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2 Motors - DC motors, AC motors, AC/DC motors.
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Instrumentation and measurement systems
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Principles and role of sensors for the measurement of
2. displacement, time, velocity, force, pressure, flow-rate, density
and temperature. Transducing elements for conversion among
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=I mechanical, thermal and electrical quantities, including
examples of electro-mechanical, capacitance, piezo-electric,
resistance, inductance, and thermo-electric transducers.
F Analvsis of the static and dvnamic oerformance of electron"
g. mechanical transducers, inbut-outbut characteristics of
transducer; compatibility of transducers, amplifiers, measuring
circuits and recorders in-measuring systems.
Applications of digital measurement techniques, digital type
transducers, digital to analogue and analogue to digital
conversions, data transfer and communications between
microcomputers.
References
Bell. D.A. Electronic instrumentation and Measurements. Reston, Va,
Reston Pub Co., 1983
Del Toro, E.O. Electrical Engineering Fundamentals. 2nd edn,
Englewood Cliffs, Prentice Hall, 1986
Doebelin. E.O. Measurement Systems. 4th edn, New York, McGraw-
Hill, 1990
Fitzgerald, A.E., Higginbotham. D.E. and Grabel, A. Basic Electrical
Engineering. 5th edn, Tokyo, McGraw-Hill International, 1981
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Applied Mechanics
No. of hours per week: four hours
Assessment: examinations and assignments
Subject aims and description
This subject aims to consolidate earlier studies of force
equilibrium, deformation and stressing of simple components
and the extension of analysis to more complex loadings which
require the transformation of stress in two dimensions.
Mechanics of materials:
Frames and machines: analysis of axial and shearing forces and
bending moment in plane frames and machines. Stresses in
frame members resulting from axial, shear and flexural
loading. Review of bending formulas derivation.
Torsion: general treatment of elastic torsion of circular section
members.
Plant stress: general treatment of plane stress including
determination of principle stress planes and their orientation,
maximum shear stress planes and their orientation - including
cases where the maximum shear stress plane is associated with
the zero principal stress. Mohr's stress circle. Examples will
include members subject to combined bending, torsion, and
axial load.
Textbook
Beer, F.P, and Johnston, E.R. Mechanics of Materiah. 5.1. Metric edn,
McGraw-Hill, 1985
Higdon et al, Mechanics of Materials. 4th edn, Wiley, 1985
Dynamics of machines:
Kinematics of particles: analysis of general plane motion of a
particle using rectangular, normal and tangential, and polar
coordinate systems.
Kinetics of particles: development and application of F=ma,
energy and momentum approaches to the solution of problems
relating forces, accelerations and velocities of particles in
general plane motion.
Kinematics of rigid bodies: analysis of linear translation and
fixed rotation of a rigid body.
Kinetics of rigid bodies: development and application of F=ma,
energy and momentum approaches to the solution of problems
relating forces, accelerations and velocities of rigid bodies in
linear translation fixed axis rotation.
Textbook
Meriam and Kraige. Engineering Mechanics, Dynamics, Vol. 2. 3rd edn,
51 version, New York, Wiley, 1993
~ ~ 2 4 Applied 3 Mechanics
No. of hours per week: four hours for first
semester, three hours for second semester
Assessment: examinations and assignments
Subject aims and description
Semester one aims to consolidate earlier studies of force
equilibrium, deformation and stressing of simple components
and the extension of analysis to more complex loadings which
require the transformation of stress in two dimensions.
Mechanics of materials:
Frames and machines, torsion, plane stress, Mohr's stress circle.
Dynamics of machines:
Frames and particles, kinetics of particles, kinematics of rigid
bodies, kinetics of rigid bodies.