COURSE INFORMATION
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Undergraduate
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MECH 344 (formerly
MECH 441): MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DESIGN (3 Credits) Prerequisite/corequisite:
ENGR 244;
MECH 313 or MIAE 313, MECH 343 (previously or concurrently). Description: This course presents the basic
principles employed in the design of standard mechanical components such as
spur gears, shafts and rolling element bearings subjected to operating force
and moment fields. The course highlights the adaptation of theoretical stress
relationships to practical design problems. Component(s):
Lectures- three hours per week. Tutorial- two hours per week. |
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MECH 343: THEORY OF MACHINES I (3.5 Credits) Prerequisite/corequisite:
ENGR 213;
ENGR 233; ENGR 243. Description:
Introduction to mechanisms; position and displacement; velocity; acceleration;
synthesis of linkage; robotics; static force analysis; dynamic force
analysis; forward kinematics and inverse kinematics; introduction to gear
analysis and gear box design; kinematic analysis of spatial mechanisms.
Component(s):
Lectures- three hours per week. Tutorial- one hour per week. Laboratory- two
hours per week, alternate weeks. |
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MECH 460: FINITE
ELEMENT ANALYSIS (3.75 Credits) Prerequisite/corequisite:
ENGR 244;
ENGR 391. Description:
Formulation and application of the finite element method to modeling of
engineering problems, including stress analysis, vibrations, and heat
transfer. Examples illustrating the direct approach, as well as variational
and weighted residual methods. Elements and interpolation functions. Meshing
effect. Error analysis. One- and two-dimensional boundary value problems.
Development of simple programs and direct experience with general purpose
packages currently used in industry for design problems. Component(s):
Lectures- three hours per week. Laboratory- three hours per week, alternate
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MECH 375 (formerly MECH 443): MECHANICAL VIBRATIONS (3.5 Credits)
Prerequisite/corequisite: MECH 370
or AERO 370.
Description: This course covers the following
topics: transient and steady-state vibrations under periodic, impulsive shock
and arbitrary excitation; multi‑degree-of-freedom systems (free and
forced response, influence coefficients, orthogonality principle, and numerical
methods); introduction to free vibrations of prismatic bars; Lagrange’s
equations; vibration measurement and control.
Component(s): Lectures- three hours per week. Tutorial- two hours
per week. Laboratory- two hours per week, alternate weeks.
ENGR 244: MECHANICS
OF MATERIALS (3.75 Credits)
Prerequisite/corequisite:
ENGR 213; ENGR 242 or ENGR 245; ENGR 233 (previously or concurrently).
Description: This course covers
the following topics: mechanical behaviour of materials; stress; strain; review
of shear and bending moment diagrams; analysis and design of structural and
machine elements subjected to axial, torsional, and flexural loadings; combined
stresses and stress transformation; deflections; introduction to elastic
stability and buckling behaviour.
Component(s):
Lectures-three hours per week. Tutorial- two hours per week. Laboratory- three
hours per week, alternate weeks.
MECH 390:
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DESIGN PROJECT (3.5 Credits)
Prerequisite/corequisite: ENCS 282; MECH 311 or MIAE 311; MECH 343; MIAE 312; MIAE 380; MECH 344 (previously or
concurrently).
Description: This course
covers the following topics: the design process; product cost, quality and time
to market, open and concept design problems, problem description; geometric and
type synthesis; direct and inverse design problems; material selection and load
determination; mathematical modelling, analysis, and validation; introduction
to Computer‑Aided Design and Engineering (CAD and CAE); product
evaluation for performance, tolerance, cost, manufacture, assembly, and other
measures; design documentation. A team‑based design project is an
intrinsic part of this course.
Component(s):
Lectures- three hours per week. Tutorial- two
hours per week.
Graduate Courses:
ENGR
6311: VIBRATIONS IN MACHINES AND STRUCTURES (4
Credits)
Description: Vibrations of
discrete systems: Single-Degree of Freedom (SDOF) and Multi-Degree of Freedom
(MDOF) systems; continuous systems: bars, beams, membranes and plates with various
boundary conditions; mode superposition; energy methods; Rayleigh-Ritz Method;
condensation techniques; applications to machine components, rotor bearing
systems, vehicle and aerospace structures. Project on selected topics is an
integral part of the course.
ENGR 7311: RANDOM VIBRATIONS
(4 Credits)
Prerequisite:
ENGR 6311.
Description:
Random variables and mathematical description of stochastic processes; random
processes in time-domain.; Fourier transforms and random processes in the
frequency-domain; Random vibration of single-degree-of-freedom; random
vibration of multi-degree-of-freedom systems; structural failure and
design under random vibration.
MECH 6321: OPTIMUM DESIGN OF MECHANICAL SYSTEMS (4
Credits)
Description:
Survey of practical methods for optimum design of mechanical systems; optimal
performance criteria and selection of design variables. Introduction to analytical
and numerical optimization methods for single- and multi-variable unconstrained
problem: direct search and gradient methods. Constrained optimization.
Optimality criterion techniques for mechanical systems. Cases studies in the
area of solid mechanics. Discussion on commercial software packages, their
capability, availability and limitations. An optimization project on selected topics is required.
MECH 691R: NONLINEAR FINITE ELEMENT METHOD IN SOLIDS AND
STRUCTURES (4 Credits)
Description:
General introduction to nonlinear analysis (sources of nonlinearities in
structural and mechanical problems such as geometry, material, forces and boundary conditions); Review of
continuum mechanics (kinematics of finite deformation, deformation and
displacement gradients, different strain and stress measures, co-rotational
stresses and strains, conservation equations and constitutive laws);
Formulation of nonlinear finite elements
(total and updated Lagrangian formulations, co-rotational formulations,
tangent and geometric stiffness matrices); Solution of nonlinear equations
(Newton-Raphson and modified Newton-Raphson methods; Quasi-Newton methods, load
and displacement controls, convergence criteria); Introduction to stability analysis
( classical linear buckling analysis versus nonlinear buckling analysis,
imperfection sensitivity, limit loads of shallow structures and practical
applications).
MECH 6341: ENGINEERING ANALYSIS OF SMART MATERIALS AND
STRUCTURES (4
Credits)
Description:
Topics include introduction to smart materials and structures; overview of
mathematical models for mechanical and electrical systems; mathematical
representation of smart systems; piezoelectric materials and their constitutive
equations; electromechanical coupling in piezoelectric based systems and
structures and their governing equations; shape memory alloys and their
constitutive models; electrical activation of shape memory alloys and their
dynamic modelling; electrorheological (ER) and magnetorheological (MR) fluids
and elastomers; constitutive models for ER and MR fluids and elastomers;
dynamic modelling and vibration analysis of ER and MR based adaptive devices
and structures; application of smart materials as energy dissipating elements
in structural systems for passive, semi-active and active vibration control;
application of smart materials in motion control. A project is required.