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One two-hour lecture and a three hour tutorial per week. Three laboratories will need to be attended through the semester.

No text book is compulsory –notes are provided

• Gere, J.M., Mechanics of Materials, Seventh edition, Cengage Learning, 2009.

• Beer, Johnston, DeWolf, Mazurek, Mechanics of Materials, McGraw Hill 2009

• Hibbeler, R.C., Mechanics of Materials, SI edition, Prentice-Hall, Inc. 2011.

• Benham, P.P., Crawford, R.J. and Armstrong, C.G. Mechanics of Engineering Materials, Second edition, Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1996.

• Shigley, J.E. and Mischke, C.R., Mechanical Engineering Design, Sixth metric edition, McGraw-Hill, 2002.

Further material will be available through MyUni under the “Course Material” section for this subject.

Assignments and in-class quizzes are provided as part of the learning experience. Students are expected to enhance their knowledge, problem solving skills and understanding of the subject matter through completing the assignments and quizzes, so they are regarded as formative rather than summative. The assignments and quizzes are marked, with the mark contributing to the final grade for the subject to ensure that students actually do the assignments and quizzes and take them seriously. It also helps to assess whether the required graduate attributes are being developed.

The laboratory class is intended to provide students with some practical experience in using experimental techniques and the Finite Element Method as well as experience in report writing and communicating their results.

The examination is a summative assessment and is intended to assess the student’s knowledge and understanding of the course material and how it fits into the global engineering context.

Every week there will be a tutorial given out at the beginning of the session to be completed during that session. It is very difficult to complete the tutorial within the allotted time if students have not prepared for the session. The best preparation is to attempt questions out of any of the suggested textbooks in the subject area prior to the tutorial. An hour’s preparation in this manner is recommended before each tutorial.

One assignment will be given at the beginning of the year, and it is expected to require approximately fifteen hours of work.

INTRODUCTION (2%)

TENSION, COMPRESSION AND SHEAR (8%)

ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF SIMPLE STRUCTURES (8%)

AXIALLY LOADED MEMBERS (8%)

TORSION OF CIRCULAR BARS (8%)

BENDING (10%)

GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF AN AREA (5%)

COMBINED LOADING (5%)

DEFLECTION OF BEAMS AND SHAFTS (5%)

BUCKLING INSTABILITY (5%)

ANALYSIS OF STRESS (10%)

GENERALIZED HOOKE’S LAW AND STRAIN ENERGY (8%)

THEORIES OF FAILURE AND PLASTICITY (8%)

SHAFT DESIGN (5%)

PRESSURE VESSELS (5%)

Attendance at laboratories is compulsory. If the total mark for laboratories is less than 30% for that section, the student will automatically fail the subject.

Assignments will be marked for clarity, proper referencing, interpretation and justification of results. Justification and explanation of thought process can be as important as the final numerical answer given.

Submissions are to be handed in to the submission box on level 2 of Engineering South Building with a signed cover page. Submissions not having a cover page will not be marked.

It is strongly recommended that an electronic submission is also submitted to the “Digital dropbox” within MyUni. This ensures that they are timestamped and that there is a backup copy submitted in case there are problems later with the paper copy.

• Electronic submission file MUST be named in the format of “s(student number) Asst 1”. If you submit a file with a different filename, it will not be marked.
• An easy way to compile the assignment is to scan handwritten calculations and diagrams, and then to insert them into the main document.
• Your submission needs to include all appendices, etc within the file. Separate files will not be marked.

Any late submission will be marked at -10% penalty per calendar day late.

Marked assignments and quizzes will be returned in the “submission return” pigeonholes in the second floor of Engineering South (beside the elevator).

Students are encouraged to contact the lecturer as soon as possible if there is a problem with handing in assignments/quizzes so as to request a different deadline.