Course overview
Equip students with knowledge and skills to support design and manufacturing procedures, develop effective maintenance strategies and guide failure investigations, which are all achieved by introducing appropriate assumptions and simplifications, establishing, validating and analysing a mathematical model of mechanical behaviour and failure of structural component.
- Fundamentals of Solid Mechanics
- Plane problems of linear elasticity
- Introduction to plasticity, fracture and fatigue
Course learning outcomes
- Use the fundamental concepts, principles and governing equations of Solid Mechanics, Theories of Elasticity and Plasticity, Fracture and Fatigue.
- Simplify real problem to establish its representative mathematical model.
- Appy analytical, numerical and experimental methods to validate and analyse the mathematical model of the actual structural component subjected to various loading conditions.
- Apply knowledge and skills to support design and fabrication of engineering components, development of effective maintenance strategies and guide failure investigations.
- Interpret and communicate the outcomes of theoretical analyses and experimental studies in industrial settings.
Availability
Class details
Adelaide City Campus East
Group 1
Class number 27373
Section PR10
Size 8
Available 2
Class number 27374
Section PR09
Size 8
Available 2
Class number 27375
Section PR08
Size 8
Available 2
Class number 27376
Section PR07
Size 8
Available 5
Class number 27377
Section PR06
Size 8
Available 1
Class number 27378
Section PR05
Size 8
Available 1
Class number 27379
Section PR04
Size 8
Available 0
Class number 27380
Section PR03
Size 8
Available 5
Class number 27381
Section PR02
Size 8
Available 7
Class number 27382
Section PR01
Size 8
Available 7
Class number 33538
Section AS01
Size 80
Available 32
Class number 27383
Section WS01
Size 80
Available 32
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