MATS1600 Mechanical Design and Manufacturing Course description

Today, mechanical construction and technical design are conducted using digital engineering tools. In this course, you will use knowledge and skills from traditional mechanical subjects together with a digital engineering tool to design mechanical parts, components and products. You will also learn how to document your work.

The course builds on MAPE1300 Mechanics.

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After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and competence:

Knowledge

The student

• is capable of identifying common mechanical components and structural components and explaining what they are used for
• is familiar with the systematic work involved in constructing parts, and putting the parts together to form components and products
• knows the production documentation requirements
• knows the rules for machine drawing

Skills

The student is capable of

• digitally modelling parts, components and products, and generating correct detailed drawings and assembly drawings based on the digital models
• carrying out power analysis and stress calculations
• constructing and dimensioning common machine parts and components such as screws and screw connections, welds and welded assemblies, shafts, shaft bearings, shaft-hub connections and simple shafting/transmissions
• carrying out simple fatigue calculations for machine parts based on infinite service life
• conducting simple element analysis

General competence

The student is capable of

• correctly documenting his or her own work and presenting them digitally

In this course, the student learns to construct hydraulic systems and select components. The course also includes piping systems and pumps as well as ordinary energy machines. Emphasis is placed both on the understanding of systems and individual components.

No requirements over and above the admission requirements.

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge The student is able to:

• Account for various machine systems that convert energy.
• Account for common components included in such systems.

Skills

The student is capable of:

• Drawing hydraulic wiring diagrams and performing simple system analyzes.
• Designing and dimensioning certain hydraulic systems.
• Calculating working pressure, volume flow and flow velocities in pipelines using Bernoulli's equation and continuity equation.
• Calculating pressure loss and power loss across different types of components in pipelines and finding the operating point of pumps operating in a composite system.
• Calculating power, torque, and different types of efficiencies for systems based on thermal and electrical energy machines.

General competence

The students will gain:

• The ability to produce adequate documentation of their own work.

Lectures, laboratory assignments and supervised exercises.

The estimated workload is four hours of lectures, four hours of supervised exercises and five hours of self-study per week.

The following coursework is compulsory and must be approved before the student can sit in the exam:

• 2 lab reports;
• 4 individual exercises

The Exam consist of two parts:

Part 1: Individual digital home exam, 3 hours. This part counst 60 %

Part 2: A project raport on the Simultation project. This part counst 40 %.

The exam results can be appealed.

In the event of a resit or rescheduled exam, an oral examination may be used instead. In case an oral exam is used, the examination results cannot be appealed.

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