Shells: Combined bending and tension of rectangular and circular plates. Axisymmetric shells under axisymmetric loading.
Composite Structures:Constituent Materials, lamina stress strain relationships, effective modulii of continuous lamina, strength of continuous fibre lamina. Analysis of discontinuous fibre reinforced lamina. Analysis of laminates. Failure criterias.
Fatigue:Linear elastic fracture mechanics, elasto-plastic fracture mechanics, CTOD, J-integral, failure assessment diagrams R6.
Creep: Creep testing, creep laws, stress relaxation, stress redistribution, creep rupture, creep-fatigue interaction.
Plasticity: Elastic-uniaxial systems - initiation and flow, stress-strain relationships, material idealisations, multi-axial systems - yield
criteria and flow, elastic-plastic strains, plastic deformation theory, plastic incremental theory, normality theorem, residual
stresses, shakedown analysis, limit analysis, yield surface, lower/upper bound theorems.
Fracture Surface Analysis: fatigue, brittle and ductile failure surfaces
Failure Analysis: Failure analysis methods, RCCM, FCA, FMA etc
Stress Analysis techniques: Photoelasticity and Strain Gauging techniques application and monitoring of various materials
On successful completion of this module the students should be able to:
1. Have a critical understanding of a range of spealised theories and concepts to assess structural integrity (M1).
2. Systematically quantify the effects and impacts of failures (M1, M2).
3. Recognise different failure surfaces (M2, M4).
4. Design and analyse composite frp structures (M3).
5. Undertake practical stress anlysis techniques to monitor structure integrity (M3, M4).
* The Summary of Learning Outcomes AHEP 4th Edition (Details in Appendix A).
The material covered during lectures will be reinforced and consolidated through tutorials, seminars and practical laboratory work. Students will study and solve real world engineering problems encouraging divergent thinking and broader, deeper learning. Students will take part in practical laboratory work which will enhance data acquisition and manipulation skills, individual and group working skills, technical report writing skills and communication skills in general.
Through the use of the managed learning environment GCU Learn, students will become more engaged, flexible and independent in their learning as there will be a wide range of learning resources available on line. In addition to the core
module content, links to relevant databases for the sourcing of additional reading material from the current research in the subject area from around the world, and notices regarding relevant professional body talks in the local area will be made
available.
The assessment of the students will incorporate laboratory and design and analysis work based on real world engineering problems through group and individual coursework, and an examination.
Students will receive individualised feedback on their performance through one-to-one contact with tutors at tutorials and seminars and marked coursework, which will reinforce the students' learning, and examination results.
By the end of this module students will have gained competence in the following key areas: Composite Design and Analysis, Failure Assessment and stress analysis techniques. From this modules they will be able to manage and present data in a variety of ways and be proficient in generic IT skills . Creative and innovative approaches, and critical thinking combined with scientific and engineering evidence to real world engineering problem solving. Reflective approach to learning, communication skills including oral, written and visual, and team working.
