This course focuses on the way of material selection when people design something. Topics include physical properties, mechanical characteristics, thermal behaviors, electrical responses, durability, processing, and environmental issues.
At the end of this course, students will be able to select materials which students want to design by learning basics of material selection through exercise and case studies.
Materials, Design
✔ Specialist skills | Intercultural skills | Communication skills | ✔ Critical thinking skills | ✔ Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
This course introduces how to select appropriate materials and checks students' understanding by exercise in the first half of the course. Students will have chances to work on the cases by applying knowledge acquired through this course in the latter half of the course.
Course schedule | Required learning | |
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Class 1 | Materials history, character, organizing materials and processes, matching material to design | Understand materials history, character, organizing materials and processes, matching material to design |
Class 2 | Stiffness and weight | Understand stiffness and weight |
Class 3 | Flex, sag, and wobble | Understand flex, sag, and wobble |
Class 4 | Exercise: stiffness-limited design | Use the exercise problems to better understand the topics covered and evaluate one's own progress. |
Class 5 | Plasticity, yielding and ductility | Understand plasticity, yielding and ductility |
Class 6 | Bend and crush | Understand bend and crush |
Class 7 | Exercise: strength-limited design | Use the exercise problems to better understand the topics covered and evaluate one's own progress. |
Class 8 | Fracture and fracture toughness | Understand fracture and fracture toughness |
Class 9 | Cyclic loading, damage and failure | Understand cyclic loading, damage and failure |
Class 10 | Exercise: fracture-limited design | Use the exercise problems to better understand the topics covered and evaluate one's own progress. |
Class 11 | Friction and wear, using materials at high temperatures | Understand friction and wear, using materials at high temperatures |
Class 12 | Case study 1: Titanic diserster | Use the case study to better understand the topics covered and evaluate one's own progress. |
Class 13 | Case study 2: rupture of steam piping in thermal power plant | Use the case study to better understand the topics covered and evaluate one's own progress. |
Class 14 | Case study 3: Comet plane diserster | Use the case study to better understand the topics covered and evaluate one's own progress. |
Class 15 | Case study 4: rupture accident of cylinder for scuba diving | Use the case study to better understand the topics covered and evaluate one's own progress. |
Michael Ashby,Hugh Shercliff, and David Cebon, Materials: Engineering, Science, Processing and Design, Butterworth-Heinemann, (2007)
Peter R. N. Childs, Mechanical Design Second edition, Butterworth-Heinemann
Exercise (35%) and report (65%)
Student require the following knowledge: basics of strength of material, engineering material