MECH3400
10 units
3000 level
Course handbook
Description
Extends the competency of students in understanding engineering materials and their behaviours. The course is focused more on the mechanical and other physical, chemical behaviours of materials than is Materials Science & Engineering 1, although the importance of other properties is never ignored. There are three major elements to the course:1. The required theoretical understanding of the properties of engineering materials, how they are manipulated, and how they may degrade in service is presented in a series of lectures;2. This material is reinforced by tutorials;3. A series of laboratory exercises and a related assignment encourage students to think across topic boundaries.
Availability2024 Course Timetables
Singapore PSB
- Trimester 1 - 2024 (Singapore)
Callaghan
- Semester 1 - 2024
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Relate the mechanical properties of a material to its atomic and crystal structure, and of the detailed assemblage of phases within it.
2. Plan how material properties can be tailored to suit a particular application using thermal, mechanical and chemical treatments.
3. Identify other forms of material failure including oxidation, corrosion, and wear.
4. Categorize different mechanical failure modes of materials.
5. Apply the fundamentals of chemistry to analyse chemical reactions and chemical synthesis.
6. Connect the physical properties of materials including electronic, optical, thermal and magnetic properties with the mechanisms behind these phenomena.
Content
- Crystallography
- Mechanical properties of materials
- Phase diagram/Heat treatments/Steels/Non equilibrium states1
- Materials Experiments
- Fundamentals of Chemistry
- Organic Chem & Synthesis
- Advanced materials properties-electronic, optical, thermal, and magnetic properties
Assumed knowledge
MECH1750 Engineering Materials 1
Assessment items
Written Assignment: Laboratory Assignment
Quiz: Assessment 2 - Quiz
Quiz: Assessment 3 - Quiz
Quiz: Assessment 4 - Quiz
Contact hours
Trimester 1 - 2024 (Singapore) - Singapore PSB
Laboratory-1
- Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 6 week(s) starting in week 3
Lecture-1
- Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 7 week(s) starting in week 1
Lecture-2
- Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 13 week(s) starting in week 1
- 4 hours per week for 6 weeks and 2 hours per week for 6 weeks
Tutorial-1
- Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 13 week(s) starting in week 1
Semester 1 - 2024 - Callaghan
Laboratory-1
- Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 6 week(s) starting in week 3
Lecture-1
- Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 7 week(s) starting in week 1
Lecture-2
- Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 13 week(s) starting in week 1
- 4 hours per week for 6 weeks and 2 hours per week for 6 weeks
Tutorial-1
- Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 13 week(s) starting in week 1
Course outline
- MECH3400 - Trimester 1, 2024 (Psb) (PDF, 234.9 KB)
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