 Academic Year: | 2016/7 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Mechanical Engineering |
| Credits: | 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 120 |
| Level: | Intermediate (FHEQ level 5) |
| Period: |
- Semester 1
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| Assessment Summary: | CW 15%, EX 85% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Examination (EX 85%)
- Lab Experiment (CW 15%)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- ME20016 Re-Assessment Examination (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
This unit is not normally available to visiting/exchange students. |
| Description:
| Aims:To introduce the vibrations of mechanical systems in a one degree of freedom context.
To introduce the theory of torsion in non-circular and open- sections, dual axis bending and the concept of fatigue failure.
Learning Outcomes:
After taking this unit the student should be able to:
* Set up the equations of motion for systems with one degree of freedom; find natural frequencies of free motion; calculate rates of decay from viscous damping and vice versa; determine motions resulting from a sinusoidal force, unbalance and base excitation.
* Estimate maximum responses using shock spectra.
* Calculate shaft critical speeds.
* Calculate torsional stiffness and strength values for closed and open structural sections.
* Predict bending stresses in dual axis bending.
* Predict the fatigue life of some simple structural forms based on S-N calculations.
Skills:
Problem solving; numeracy; working independently.
Content:
One degree of freedom systems: free and forced vibration; base excited motion; unbalance excitation; vibration isolation. Torsion of open and closed structural sections, dual axis bending. Stress concentration, fatigue strength and cumulative damage in structural components. Solid mechanics laboratory experiment.
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| Programme availability: |
ME20016 is Compulsory on the following programmes:
Department of Mechanical Engineering
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- UEME-AKB26 : BEng(Hons) Aerospace Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 2)
- UEME-AFM04 : MEng(Hons) Aerospace Engineering (Year 2)
- UEME-AKM04 : MEng(Hons) Aerospace Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 2)
- UEME-AFB16 : BEng(Hons) Mechanical Engineering (Year 2)
- UEME-AKB16 : BEng(Hons) Mechanical Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 2)
- UEME-AFM16 : MEng(Hons) Mechanical Engineering (Year 2)
- UEME-AKM16 : MEng(Hons) Mechanical Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 2)
- UEME-AFB41 : BEng(Hons) Mechanical Engineering with Advanced Design and Innovation (Year 2)
- UEME-AKB41 : BEng(Hons) Mechanical Engineering with Advanced Design and Innovation with Year long work placement (Year 2)
- UEME-AFM41 : MEng(Hons) Mechanical Engineering with Advanced Design and Innovation (Year 2)
- UEME-AKM41 : MEng(Hons) Mechanical Engineering with Advanced Design and Innovation with Year long work placement (Year 2)
- UEME-AFB38 : BEng(Hons) Mechanical Engineering with Manufacturing and Management (Year 2)
- UEME-AKB38 : BEng(Hons) Mechanical Engineering with Manufacturing and Management with Year long work placement (Year 2)
- UEME-AFM38 : MEng(Hons) Mechanical Engineering with Manufacturing and Management (Year 2)
- UEME-AKM38 : MEng(Hons) Mechanical Engineering with Manufacturing and Management with Year long work placement (Year 2)
- UEME-AFB47 : BEng(Hons) Mechanical with Automotive Engineering (Year 2)
- UEME-AKB47 : BEng(Hons) Mechanical with Automotive Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 2)
- UEME-AFM47 : MEng(Hons) Mechanical with Automotive Engineering (Year 2)
- UEME-AKM47 : MEng(Hons) Mechanical with Automotive Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 2)
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