1997 QUT Handbook

■ MEB232 MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY 1
Nucleation and growth phenomena in commercial materials;
soldification and casting; engineering properties of steels and
non-ferrous alloys; welding and joining of structural materials;
powder metallurgy and sintering.
Courses: IF53, IF56, ME35, ME45, ME46, ME4
Prerequisites: MEB133 or MEB134
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 4 per week
■ MEB275 MANUFACTURING PRACTICE 2
Workplace health and safety practices. Lectures and handson
instruction on machine tools; industrial presses; foundry
methods; component assembly. Industry visits.
Courses: ME35 Prerequisites: MEB175
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEB282 DESIGN 1
This introductory design course covers the selection of basic
machine elements based on their function, size and capacity
as part of a mechanical system. The course comprises mechanical
design; power transfer; V-belt drives; chain drives;
gear drives; machine components: introduction to, preparation
and use of spread sheets and data bases.
Courses: IF56, ME35, ME45, ME47
Prerequisites: CEB184, MEB181 or MEB134
Corequisites: MEB111, MEB134 or MEB181
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 4 per week
■ MEB283 COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN &
DRAFTING
This subject will allow students to expand previously acquired
2DCAD expertise to main frame, surface and solid modelling
and to customise menus for personal use.
Courses: ME35
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 4 per week
■ MEB314 MECHANICS 1
Kinematic and dynamic analysis of planar linkages and mechanisms;
link synthesis and its application to the design of mechanisms;
determination of static and dynamic forces and torques
due to inertia and other effects in mechanisms; balancing;
design and synthesis of cams with specified motion using
graphical and analytical methods; kinematic analysis of
spur gears in mechanisms.
Courses: IF56, ME35, ME45, ME46, ME47
Prerequisites: CEB184, MEB111, MEB213
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 4 per week
■ MEB333 BIOMATERIALS
Characterisation of materials; metallic, ceramic, polymeric
implant materials; composites as biomaterials; structure-property
relationships of biomaterials; tissue response to implants;
soft tissue replacements; hard tissue replacements; transplants.
Courses: ME46 Prerequisites: MEB133 or MEB134
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEB336 MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY 2
Introduction to corrosion, introduction to fracture mechanics,
linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM) and elastic plastic
fracture mechanics (EPFM), fatigue crack growth and environmental
fracture, characteristics and degradation of polymers,
principles of materials selection.
Courses: IF56, ME35, ME45, ME47
Prerequisites: MEB133 or MEB134
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 4 per week
■ MEB352 THERMODYNAMICS 1
Basics of engineering thermodynamics and heat engines; reversibility;
first and second laws of thermodynamics; properties
of liquid, vapour and gas; flow and non-flow processes;
heat engine cycles; positive displacement expanders and compressors;
multi-stage compressors; engine performance testing.
Courses: IF56, ME35, ME45, ME46, ME47
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 4 per week
■ MEB355 THERMOFLUIDS
This unit introduces students to principles of heat transfer,
fluid power and more advanced application of fluid mechan-
ics and thermodynamics. Unsteady fluid flow; dynamic similarity;
rotodynamic machines; hydraulic fluid power systems;
Rankine cycle and its application in steam power generation
industry; vapour compression; gas turbines.
Courses: ME35
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEB362 THERMOFLUIDS
Fluid properties; forces on fluids at rest; definition and applications
of the continuity equation, the momentum equation and the
energy equation; isentropic compressible flow including boundary
layer effects; first and second laws of thermodynamics.
Courses: EE43
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEB363 FLUIDS 1
Fluid properties; forces on a fluid at rest; manometry; fluid
pressure on submerged bodies; equilibrium of floating bodies;
concepts of fluid flow; pressure drop in pipes; power transmission
through pipelines; momentum and fluid flow; energy
equation and fluid flow; applications of the momentum and
energy equations; branching of pipes.
Courses: IF56, ME35, ME45, ME46, ME47
Prerequisites: CEB184, PHB134, MAB188
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 4 per week
■ MEB381 DESIGN 2
Methodology for mechanical design: design of machine elements;
journal bearings; brakes; design for strength and fatigue;
computer aided design.
Courses: ME35, ME45, ME47
Prerequisites: CEB184, MEB101 or MEB282, MEB121 or
MEB181
Corequisites: MEB314
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEB454 AERODYNAMICS 1
Applied subsonic aerodynamics, visualisation of flow and
pressure distributions about various sections in a free stream,
the use of non-dimensional aerodynamic coefficients for the
analysis of forces, moments and stability, the analysis of aircraft
performance parameters.
Courses: EE43 Prerequisites: MEB362
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEB455 THERMODYNAMICS 2
Steam plant; nozzles; impulse and reaction turbines; gas turbines;
mixtures; refrigeration; chemistry of combustion and
water treatment.
Courses: ME45, ME47 Prerequisites: MEB352
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 4 per week
■ MEB456 AIR CONDITIONING
Psychometry; cooling load calculations; air conditioning systems;
vapour compression refrigeration cycle analysis;
multipressure systems; absorption refrigeration; field visits.
Courses: ME35, ME45
Prerequisites: MEB251 or MEB455, MEB462 or MEB466
Credit Points: 7 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEB465 BIOFLUIDS
The basic principle of the mechanics of viscous fluids and
their application to the study of biological fluids. Course covers:
continuity of flow; viscosity and its measurements; Newton’s
law of measurement; non-Newtonian fluids; Navier-
Stokes equations of motion; Eulerian and Lagrangian descriptions
of flow; boundary layer theory; dimensional similarity;
rheology and rheological models; rheology of biofluids;
hemodynamics; artificial pumps, anaesthesia machines; heartlung
by-pass machines.
Courses: ME46 Prerequisites: MEB363
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEB466 FLUIDS 2
Unsteady fluid flow in piping systems; dynamic similarity;
regimes of incompressible flow around a body (potential and
boundary layer flow); principles of operation of pumps, turbines
and hydrokinetic devices; Navier-Stokes equations ap-
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