ENME307-14S2 (C) Semester Two 2014

Performance of Engineering Materials

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 14 July 2014
End Date: Sunday, 16 November 2014
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 25 July 2014
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 10 October 2014

Description

Modelling elastic and plastic behaviour. Mechanisms of ductile/brittle overload, fatigue, creep and corrosion. Linear elastic fracture mechanics. Prediction of remaining life due to fatigue, creep, corrosive environments. Fracture safe design and fracture control plans. Correlation between chemical, structural and physical characteristics of metals and plastics necessary for appropriate material selection, design and processing.

This course builds on the structure-property-processing-performance concepts introduced in ENME207 for metals and polymers.  The focus on performance in ENME307 will aid students in complex design tasks in other courses such as ENME311, ENME401 and ENME408.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this course students will be able to:
 Predict elastic and plastic deformation response.
 Apply brittle fracture safe design methods, including linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM) e.g., leak-before-break.
 Predict temperature effects on steels.
 Calculate remaining life due to fatigue, corrosion, environmentally assisted cracking and creep.
 Develop and apply fracture control plans.
 Apply methods for laboratory based failure analysis.
 Apply basic modelling concepts of viscoelastic materials to predict time-dependent properties (creep and relaxation), relaxation time.
 Perform dynamic mechanical analysis as a method for experimentally determining thermomechanical parameters.
 Perform analytical modelling and simulation of metal and polymer processing (injection molding, extrusion).
 Apply concepts of manufacture of metals and polymers in mechanical designs

Prerequisites

Restrictions

ENME457; ENME477

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Milo Kral

Lecturer

Mark Staiger

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Final Exam 20%
Term 3 homework (x6) 5%
Term 3 Lab reports (x 2) 5%
Term 4 lab reports (x2) 16% Due one week after lab session.
Test 1 08 Aug 2014 15%
Test 2 08 Sep 2014 25%
Test 3 03 Oct 2014 14%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Dowling, Norman E; Mechanical Behavior of Materials ; 4th; 2012.

Recommended Reading

Dieter, G.E; Mechanical Metallurgy: Principles and Applications ;

Gerdeen, J.C., Rorrer, R.A.L; Engineering Design with Polymers and Composites ;

Hertzberg, R.W; Deformation and Fracture Mechanics of Engineering Materials ;

McCrum, N.G., Buckley, C.P., Bucknall, C.B; Principles of Polymer Engineering ;

Powell, P.C., Housz, A.J.I; Engineering with Polymers ;

Scully, J.C; Fundamentals of Corrosion ; 1975.

Unknown; ASM Metals Handbooks ;

Young, R.J., Lovell, P.A; Introduction to Polymers ;

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $841.00

International fee $4,638.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Mechanical Engineering .

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