Undergraduate Course: Mechanical Design Principles 3 (MECE09018)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 9 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | Engineering design is often regarded as the central creative activity of engineering, requiring the skills of analysis and synthesis to develop solutions to open-ended problems. This module consolidates and builds on students' existing design experiences. |
| Course description |
Course Syllabus:
Unit 1 - Course Overview
Introduction; The Design Process; The Process model.
Unit 2 - Design Requirements
Identification of Design need; Product Life Cycle; Legislative constraints.
Unit 3 - Design Definition
Exploring the design requirement through the use of "Requirement Trees"; Product Design Specification.
Unit 4 - Creativity
Creative style; Divergent/Convergent Thinking; Brainstorming; Morphological Analysis; Creative Habits.
Unit 5 - Problem Solving
Engineering approximations and assumptions.
Unit 6 - Embodiment and Detail design
Preferred Number Series; Standard sizes; Guidelines for good embodiment design.
Unit 7 - Design of Experiments
Factorial Experiments; Limitations of Factorial DOE.
Unit 8 - Taguchi Methods
Fractional Factorial Experiments; Linear Graphs; Confounding.
Unit 9 - Orthogonal Arrays
Parameter selection; Interpretation of Results.
Unit 10 - Material Properties and Failure
Static Strength; Stiffness; Brittleness; Resilience; Toughness; Creep.
Unit 11 - Stress Concentration
Design for Static Strength.
Unit 12 - Fatigue Failure
Terminology; Measurement; Characteristic Curves; Miner's Rule; S-N Curves.
Unit 13 - Reliability
Reliability in the design specification; Cost of reliability.
Unit 14 - Component Failure
Reliability of an assembly.
Unit 15 - Tools for Exploring Failure of a Design
Fault tress; Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Describe: - The main stages of the design process within the context of commercial product design: from the recognition of 'need' through to production. Including the interaction between company functions such as marketing, production and maintenance etc. - Differences in creative 'styles' and some of the thought processes involved in design, including the notion of convergent-divergent thinking, and how these styles can be exploited through the use of creativity tools such as brainstorming and morphological analysis.
- Demonstrate: - An awareness of some of the material properties associated with component failure. - How to select a suitably sized experimental matrix for use in the design of experiments and designate columns for main and combined effects using linear graphs.
- Use: - Requirement trees to explore and define the constraints and requirements of a system given a simple design specification. - Simple statistical analysis on the results of full and partial factorial experimental designs and use this data to derive simple predictive models of multi-parameter systems. - Basic probability theory to predict the reliability of design systems where components may be deployed in series or parallel and the effects of redundant systems.
- Calculate: - The fatigue life of simple component geometries subject to varying loads.
- Interrogate: - Designs for likely causes of failure using both top-down fault tree analysis and bottom-up failure modes and effects analysis.
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Reading List
Shigley, "Mechanical Engineering Design", McGraw Hill (1986)
Pugh, "Total Design", Addison-Wesley (1991)
These, and other texts, are available in the University Library. |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Adam Robinson
Tel: (0131 6)50 8689
Email: Adam.Robinson@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Lynn Hughieson
Tel: (0131 6)50 5687
Email: Lynn.Hughieson@ed.ac.uk |
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