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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

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Note

Tuition Patterns

The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.

Unit references, texts and outcomes

To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.

Area: Department of Mechanical Engineering
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.5
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory: 2 x 1 Hours Quarterly
Prerequisite(s): 308802 (v.1) Strength of Materials 232 or any previous version
Syllabus: Failure mechanisms in metals. High cycle fatigue phenomena. Estimation of fatigue life. Effects of various parameters on fatigue life. Stress concentrations and their effects. Cumulative damage assessment. Non-zero mean loads. Combined and triaxial loads. Analysis of fatigue fracture surfaces. Introduction to linear elastic fracture mechanics. Determination of fracture toughness. Energy methods of beam deflection. Euler buckling of columns. Thick and compound cylinders. Rotating rings, disks, and shafts. Introduction to elasticity theory. Airy stress function.
Field of Education: 030701 Mechanical Engineering
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2012 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 1 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External