Module overview
This second year module continues to develop the links between structures and materials, building on the fundamentals established in the first year course on mechanics, structures and materials. The relationship between composition, microstructure and properties of materials is linked to a deeper understanding of their structural performance. This assessment of structural performance is also developed through more advanced stress and deflection analyses for more complex engineering components and systems. This combination of approaches will strengthen the students’ understanding of the interplay between materials engineering and structural design. This module also develops the foundations for more advanced third year and fourth year modules in materials and solid mechanics.
Linked modules
Pre-requisite: FEEG1002
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Subject Specific Practical Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Conduct scientific experiments and critically analyse results
- Produce scientific reports
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Identify major failure mechanisms and relate to design/service conditions
- Critically analyse a situation involving materials and prepare questions to be answered by experts in the field
- Identify regions of high stress and deformation in engineering components and systems, and predict failure by using traditional methods of stress analysis
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- Advanced topics in buckling
- Introduction to continuum mechanics
- Relationship between understanding of materials properties, service performance and the design process
- Properties of important engineering materials and how they are influenced by heat treatment and manufacture
- Advanced topics in bending and torsion
- The application of energy methods for stress and deformation analysis
- Static and fatigue failure of engineering components subject to combined loading
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Interpret component/system failure in a wider context
- Team working through laboratory experiments
Syllabus
- Introduction to whole course: the interaction of materials and structures (joint lecture)
- Advanced topics in bending.
Fluctuating stresses and fatigue failure. Fatigue analysis for steady and fluctuating loads (lectures, discipline specific tutorial)
- Advanced topics in torsion
(lectures, examples class, discipline specific tutorial.
- Advanced topics in buckling (lectures, discipline specific tutorials).
- Energy methods for stress and deformation analysis (lectures, discipline specific tutorial).
- Introduction to continuum mechanics (lectures, discipline specific tutorial).
- Structural Performance of Materials: Fracture, Fatigue, Wear and Corrosion (lectures, case study tutorial and lab classes):
- An introduction to the major failure modes and a consideration of the failure mechanisms. Methods to combat these failure modes are considered. Analysis of fatigue in engineering components subject to bending, tension and torsion.
- Lightweight materials (lectures, case study tutorial):
- Composites: Designing with polymer matrix composites with glass, Kevlar and carbon fibres. Basic composite theory, the properties and applications of composites. Manufacturing methods are described. Light Metals: A comparison of the metallurgy and properties of the competing light metals - the alloys of aluminium, magnesium and titanium. The effect of heat treatment upon properties is considered.
- Ferrous Alloys (lectures, case study tutorial)
- Consideration of the properties, structures and the structural transformations which occur in ferrous alloys. Selection and use of steels for structural engineering applications.
- High temperature materials (lectures, case study tutorial)
High temperature requirements, oxidation, creep, high temperature materials: nickel alloys and ceramics. Improving performance at high temperatures.
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Teaching methods include:
- Lectures on the above supported by example sheets in supplied course material.
- Discipline-specific problem classes and design workshops.
- Laboratory sessions on: fatigue, corrosion and structures problems
Learning activities include:
- Individual work on examples in course material, attendance at laboratory classes, tutorials and associated coursework completion
| Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Preparation for scheduled sessions | 28 |
| Tutorial | 10 |
| Revision | 30 |
| Lecture | 24 |
| Practical classes and workshops | 6 |
| Completion of assessment task | 12 |
| Follow-up work | 40 |
| Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
General Resources
Blackboard Course for module.
Textbooks
W.D.Callister. Materials Science and Engineering - An Introduction. Wiley.
P P Benham, R J Crawford & C G Armstrong (1996). Mechanics of Engineering Materials. Longman.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Coursework | 10% |
| Coursework | 10% |
| Examination | 70% |
| Coursework | 10% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Coursework | 10% |
| Coursework | 10% |
| Examination | 70% |
| Coursework | 10% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Coursework | 10% |
| Coursework | 10% |
| Examination | 70% |
| Coursework | 10% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External