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References
Ashby, M.F. and Jones. D.R.H. Engineering Materials. Vols. l(1986) and
11 (1988). London, Pergamon Press
. Metals Handbook. 9th edn, ASM, Metals Park, Ohio, U.S.A., 1985
Broek, D. Elementary ~n~ineering Fracture Mechanics. 4th rev. edn,
Boston, Nijhoff, 1987
Hertzberg, R.W. Deformation and Fracture Mechanics of Engineering
Materials. 3rd edn, New York, Wiley, 1989
~ ~ 3 4 Applied 0 Mechanics
No. of hours per week: three hours
Assessment: a three hour examination,
assignmenVIaboratory
Subject aims and description
Part A Solid mechanics:
To extend earlier studies of stress, strain and deflection of
elastic systems and introduce the concepts of yielding, failure
and deformation beyond the elastic limit.
Part B Vibrations:
A basic course in vibrations covering the response of one, two
and multi degree of freedom discrete linear system (with and
without damping) to free, transient and steady state harmonic
forcing.
Textbook
0 Part A Solid mechanics
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Benham, P.P. and Crawford, R.J. Mechanics of Engineering Materials.
Harlow, England, Longmans Scientific & Technical 1987
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c. Part A Solid mechanics
Fenner, R.T. Mechanics of Solids. Oxford, Blackwell, 1989
Alexander, J.M. Strength of Materials. Chichester, Horwood, 1981
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Ford, H. Advanced Mechanics of Materials. London, Longman, 1963
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f~ Part B Vibrations
2, Thomson, W.T. Theory of Vibrations with Applications. 3rd edn,
London, Unwin Hyman, 1988
3 References
a Part B Vibrations
Bishop, R.E.D. Vibration. 2nd edn, Cambridge. Cambridge Univ. Press,
2 1979
3 Rao, S.S. Mechanical Vibrations. 3rd edn, Reading, Mass., Addison-
Wesley, 1990
Steidel, R.' An Introduction to Mechanical Vibrations. 3rd edn, New
York, Wiley, 1989 (particularly for tutorial examples)
~ ~ 3 4 Mechanics 1 and Machine Systems
No. of hours per week: six hours
This subject consists of three parts:
MM341A Mechanics of Materials;
MM341 B Mechanics of Machines;
MM341 C Control Engineering.
M~341A Mechanics of Materials
No. of hours per week: two hours
Subject aims and description
A course that concentrates on structural analysis, buckling
instability and complex bending.
Beam deflections. Review of elastic curve equation for flexural
loading, and beam deflection. Deflection of statically
determinate beams by integration, discontinuity functions and
superposition methods. Deflection and reactions in statically
indeterminate beams by discontinuity functions and
superposition methods. Plane structures. Deflection and forces
in plane structures by strain energy and moment distribution
methods or slope deflection equations. Buckling and instability.
Short, intermediate and long columns, with and without
eccentric loading; buckling of circular rings and tubes. Torsion
and shear in thin walled open sections in unsymmetrical
bending and the shear centre.
References
Benham, P.P. and Crawford, R.J. Mechanics of Engineering
Materials.Harlow, England, Longman Scientific and Technical, 1987
Fenner, R.T. Mechanics of Solids. Oxford, Blackwell, 1989
Hsieh, Y.Y. Elementary Theory of Structures. 3rd edn, Englewood Cliffs,
N.J., Prentice Hall, 1988
MM341B
Mechanics of Machines
No. of hours per week: two hours
Subject aims and description
A basic course in vibrations covering the response of 1, 2 and
multi degree of freedom discrete linear systems (with and
without damping) to free, transient and steady state harmonic
forcing.
Single DOF systems. Free vibration of single DOF system with
linear viscous damping. Forced vibrations of single degree of
freedom. Harmonic excitation - of the mass - of the base.
Resonance and the effect of damping.
Transmissibility and Dyamic magnification. Examples of
vibration isolation. Harmonic forcina, Fourier series
representation and superposition. ~;ansient response to
impulsive and step inputs, arbitrary excitation by Duhamel's
intearal. DOF Svstems. Natural freauencies and mode sha~es.
~xam~les - sp;ing coupled systems - mass coupled systems.
Forced harmonic response of systems with damping. Multidegree
of freedom systems. Equations of motion; system
modelling with examples by Newton's Law, work and energy,
and Lagrange's method. Matrix representation of the equations
of motion; mass, stiffness and damping matrices. Real and
complex eigen values and eigen vectors. Examples of linear
and torsional systems. Harmonic forcing.
References
Rao, S.S. Mechanical Vibrations. 3rd edn, Reading, Mass., Addison-
Wesley, 1993
Steidel, R.F. An lntroduction to Mechanical Vibration. 3rd edn, New
York, Wiley, 1989 (particularly for tutorial examples)
Thomson, W.T. Theory of Vibrations with Applications. 3rd edn,
London, Unwin Hyman, 1988