PROD211-24S1 (C) Semester One 2024

Materials Engineering and Selection

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 19 February 2024
End Date: Sunday, 23 June 2024
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 3 March 2024
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 12 May 2024

Description

Performance of metallic, ceramic, polymeric, composite and electronic materials in a wide variety applications. The influence of materials processing on properties. Mechanical properties and strengthening. Solidification processing of metals and plastics. Corrosion. Application of the Granta CES Materials Selector software package to explore materials properties and select suitable materials for given design applications.

Learning Outcomes

  • Students will be able to understand the effect of typical manufacturing processes on the properties of the processed materials and the physical designs that can be achieved through the use of each process.
  • Students will gain an understanding of waste streams in material processing and how waste generation can be minimised through valued added design
  • Students will be familiar with typical deterioration processes for all material classes and how they can be avoided and/or integrated in a design process
  • Students will develop a working understanding fracture mechanism and the concept of fracture toughness
  • Students will be able to select and derive a material index suited for given engineering constraints (strength-, stiffness- or fracture limited design) and use Ashby material charts for the selection of optimal material
  • Students will be introduced to the CES Material Selector and its features and will learn how to use the software in a material selection for process for a given design
  • Students will learn to recognise and identify which production processes lie behind the creation of products and how these processes can be exploited as creative inspirations for their own future design projects.

Prerequisites

Timetable 2024

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Monday 13:00 - 14:00 Jack Erskine 031 Lecture Theatre
19 Feb - 31 Mar
22 Apr - 2 Jun
Lecture B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Tuesday 09:00 - 10:00 A5 Lecture Theatre
19 Feb - 31 Mar
22 Apr - 2 Jun
Computer Lab A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Monday 15:00 - 17:00 Len Lye 201 Computer Lab
26 Feb - 31 Mar
02 Wednesday 15:00 - 17:00 Len Lye 201 Computer Lab
26 Feb - 31 Mar
03 Thursday 15:00 - 17:00 Len Lye 201 Computer Lab
26 Feb - 31 Mar
04 Friday 13:00 - 15:00 Len Lye 201 Computer Lab
26 Feb - 24 Mar
05 Friday 09:00 - 11:00 Len Lye 201 Computer Lab
26 Feb - 24 Mar
Tutorial A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Thursday 14:00 - 15:00 Rehua 005
26 Feb - 31 Mar
29 Apr - 2 Jun
Workshop A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Wednesday 10:00 - 12:00 West 301 (28/2-27/3, 24/4-29/5)
Mech 131 Materials Lab (22/5)
26 Feb - 31 Mar
22 Apr - 2 Jun
02 Thursday 11:00 - 13:00 West 301 (29/2-28/3, 2/5-30/5)
Mech 131 Materials Lab (23/5)
26 Feb - 31 Mar
29 Apr - 2 Jun
03 Wednesday 13:00 - 15:00 West 301 (28/2-27/3, 24/4-29/5)
Mech 131 Materials Lab (22/5)
26 Feb - 31 Mar
22 Apr - 2 Jun
04 Friday 11:00 - 13:00 West 301 (1/3-22/3, 26/4-31/5)
Mech 131 Materials Lab (24/5)
26 Feb - 24 Mar
22 Apr - 2 Jun
05 Tuesday 14:00 - 16:00 West 301 (27/2-26/3, 23/4-28/5)
Mech 131 Materials Lab (21/5)
26 Feb - 31 Mar
22 Apr - 2 Jun

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Hossein Najaf Zadeh

Course Administrator

Alison Lowery

Assessment

Final exam: 32 %,
The final exam will encompass the content covered in both term 1 and 2 lectures.

Design assignment, 30% in total:
Design report and poster: Students will be asked to research their waste material as a raw material for the design of a new product. Ideation, and concept design. Details must be given on the supply chain, ideated concepts and a manufacturing plan for the model/prototype of a final design. Due at the end of term 1. The due date can be found in the assignment brief (15 %)

Final design presentation: Students will be asked to present their final model/prototype (hand in their prototype and submit a short video of their design process (15%) due at the end of term 2.

Workshop assessments; 15 % in total:
There will be an online workshop quiz for selected workshops through Learn.
The quizzes are only for labs in weeks 3-6 and week 8 (3%). The time/date will be announced.

Attendance at all other lab sessions is mandatory; unexcused non-attendance will result in a 3% deduction.

PC lab assessments; 23% in total:

• Term 1 computer labs: Product research due by the end of each individual lab session, 3 submissions in term 1, 4 % each. In total 12%.

• Term 2 computer labs (Granta): total 11%:

o Lab 1, 2: Exercises 1 % each,
o Lab 3: Eco Audit tool report 4%
o Lab 4: Case studies 5%

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

Ashby, M. F. , Johnson, Kara; Materials and design : the art and science of material selection in product design ; 3rd edition; Butterworth-Heinemann, 2014.

Ashby, M. F. , Shercliff, Hugh., Cebon, David; Materials : engineering, science, processing and design ; 2nd ed., North American ed; Butterworth-Heinemann, 2010.

Callister, William D. , Rethwisch, David G; Materials science and engineering : an introduction ; 9th edition ; John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2014.

Muralisrinivasan, Natamai Subramanian; Basics of polymers : fabrication and processing technology ; Momentum Press, 2015.

Pfeifer, Michael; Materials enabled designs : the materials engineering perspective to product design and manufacturing ; Elsevier/Butterworth Heinemann, 2009.

Rosato, Donald V. , Rosato, Marlene G., Schott, Nick R; Plastics technology handbook ; Momentum Press, 2010.

Notes

The prerequisite for this course is PROD111 and either PHYS111 or PHYS101

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,059.00

International fee $6,000.00

* 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 School of Product Design .

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