Machine Dynamics and Vibrations A - MECH60001
Aims
This module aims to enable students to evaluate the dynamic response requirements of a proposed machine design and to produce workable proposals for its safe and effective operation. It will build on the second year Mechatronics and Solid Mechanics modules, introducing a greater range of examples where the dynamic response of a machine must be controlled and making the link between vibration and fatigue failure. This will involve some new subject matter in the vibration of continuous systems, rotor dynamics, signal processing and control analysis. A key aspect of the module is to demonstrate practical vibration measurements and to compare them to solutions of an idealised system in MATLAB. They will also deal with realistic problems involving the assessment of the fatigue life of structures subject to vibration and static loading. This is a level 6 version of the enhanced level 7 MDV module and students cannot take both for credit towards their final degree.
ECTS = 5
Role
Course Leader
Professional Engineering Skills 3 - MECH60015
Aims
This module is comprised of two parts: (a) Engineering in a commercial environment which aims to provide an awareness and basic understanding of some of the non-engineering aspects that will be encountered by professional engineers working in a professional environment. The main topics include: engineering finance; project management;ethics; sustainability; security; professional responsibillity and intellectual property. (b) A literature research project which aims to develop efficient use of the extensive facilities available for research on a given subject, to develop a critical attitude to information sources, an ethical attitude to attributing them and a systematic method for citing them and to stimulate interest in a given engineering-related, technical subject by studying it in depth.
ECTS = 10
Role
Lecturer
Machine Dynamics and Vibrations B - MECH70050
Aims
This module aims to enable students to evaluate the dynamic response requirements of a proposed machine design and to produce workable proposals for its safe and effective operation. It will build on the second year Mechatronics and Solid Mechanics modules, introducing a greater range of examples where the dynamic response of a machine must be controlled and making the link between vibration and fatigue failure. This will involve some new subject matter in the vibration of continuous systems, rotor dynamics, signal processing and control analysis. A key aspect of the module is to demonstrate practical vibration measurements and to compare them to solutions of an idealised system in MATLAB. They will also deal with realistic problems involving the assessment of the fatigue life of structures subject to vibration and static loading. This is an enhanced level 7 version of the level 6 MDV module and students cannot take both for credit towards their final degree.
ECTS = 5
Role
Course Leader
Dynamics - MECH50008
Aims
This module aims to enable students to master the essential basic topics in vibrations and dynamics. Vibration can be a key feature of an engineering system or a source of system failure and this module studies the free vibration of single-degree-of-freedom undamped and damped systems and an introduction to multi-degree-of-freedom systems. In dynamics topics include work-done-energy equation, general plane motion , impulse-linear momentum, angular impulse-angular momentum, impact, generalized angular impulse-angular momentum, simple gyroscopic motion.
ECTS units: 5
Role
Tutor