Engineering Structures - STRC 201 - Home Page

1 Introduction
Staff teaching this module: Jeff Barlow and David Grieve, both have offices in the Reynolds Building.
This module covers the areas that need to be considered when designing structures. These include: statics, vibration, fabrication and corrosion.

2. Assessment
This module is assessed by a combination of examination (70% weighting) and course work (30% weighting - split 0.4 for thin cylinder lab and 0.6 for the analysis of the engineering component).

3. Course Work
There are two pieces of course work:
i) Thin cylinder experiment, done in groups during weeks commencing 13th to 27th October 2003.
Link to information about the thin cylinder experiment
NB Note changed hand in date The hand in date for this report is 4pm Wednesday 18th February 2004.
ii) Structural analysis of an engineering component. Separate information is available about this. The report must be handed in by 4pm on Thursday 18th March.

4. Links to learning support material. Some of these links, below, are to pages which contain 'Engineering Science - MECH 226' in their heading - this is because MECH 226 covers a lot of similar material to this module.
Normally DJG will lecture in the 9.00-10.00 am slot and JWB in the 10.00-11.00am slot, but this will be varied depending upon other demands on peoples time.

The table below is a preliminary programme which will be varied according to student needs.
NB The dates for handing in course work can not be changed unless there are exceptional circumstances.

Week commencing:	Topic JWB:	Topic DJG:
29-9-2003	Stress in 2 dimensions: Part 1; Part 2;	Fabrication Welding Welding Processes
6-10-2003	Stress in 2 dimensions: Mohr Circle Mohr circle for strain Two dimensional stress and strain tutorial questions Solution to Tutorial Question 1a; Q 1b; Q 1c; Q 2a; Q 2b; Q 2c; Q 3a; Q 3b; Q 4a; Q 4b; Q 5a; Q 5b;	Welding Defects
13-10-2003	Part 3 - worked eg.; Part 4 - worked eg.; Part 5 Stresses and strains in thin cylinders Thin cylinder tutorial questions Thin cylinder tutorial questions solns. Question 1a	Brazing For a lot of useful information see: The Brazing Book Online by the Precious Metal Fabrication Group.
20-10-2003	Strain in 2 dimensions: Part 1; Part 2; Part 3 Q 1b; Q 2; Q 3a; Q 3b; Q 4;	Corrosion and protection Corrosion notes US Army information about marine corrosion The Corrosion Source A lot of the information here is available only to subscribers.
27-10-2003	Part 2; cont., Strain gauge rosette	Corrosion and protection continued.
3-11-2003	Part 3	Vibration Free undamped vibration notes and examples, 47 kB .pdf file
10-11-2003	Shear from transverse loading 1	Rotary oscillations Compound pendulum
17-11-2003	Shear from transverse loading 2	Examples of free vibration Mass pulley spring, page 1 Mass pulley spring, page 2 NB The following 3 files are about 100kB each. Example mass dropped on beam, page 1 Example mass dropped on beam, page 2 Example mass dropped on beam, page 3
24-11-2003	Shear flow 1	Free damped vibration notes and examples, 73 kB .pdf file * Applet to simulate free vibration of a second order system.
1-12-2003	Shear flow 2	Free damped vibration continued. Example oscillating beam, page 1 Example oscillating beam, page 2 Example oscillating beam, page 3
8-12-2003	Instability Columns - link to efunda web pages.	Free damped vibration continued
15-12-2003	Instability: Flat Plates - Instability under in plane loading	Forced undamped vibration notes and examples, 63 kB .pdf file
12-1-2004	Instability: Buckling of a cylindrical shell under external pressure, using FEA, etc. For further detail and explanation see: Douglas Wright Pages at the University of Western Australia Case study of ship hull buckling in stranding report on Chilean Navy ship Valdivia	Forced undamped vibration notes and examples, 63 kB .pdf file, continued.
19-1-2004	Beams Deflections and slopes in beams Part 1;	Forced damped vibration notes and examples, 78 kB .pdf file
26-1-2004	Part 1;, cont.	Forced damped vibration notes and examples, 78 kB .pdf file, cont.
2-2-2004	Part 2	Forced damped vibration notes and examples, 78 kB .pdf file, cont. Simulating vibration with Matlab Simulink
9-2-2004	Beams cont.	Rotating unbalance notes and examples, 37 kB .pdf file Example
16-2-2004	Beams cont.	Rotating un-balance continued, Example Measurement of Vibration - Accelerometers
23-2-2004	...	Two degree of freedom systems: Worked example
1-3-2004	...	Vibration of continuous beams Vibration of a cantilever beam (NB this is 500 kB)
8-3-2004	...	Tutorial vibration tutorial questions and solutions

Data Sheets The booklet of Data sheets which will be available during the exam can be found here