Unit name | Structural Integrity 1 |
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Unit code | MENGM0030 |
Credit points | 10 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Professor. Mostafavi |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
MENG33112 Failure of Materials |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Department of Mechanical Engineering |
Faculty | Faculty of Engineering |
This course aims to expand students’ knowledge of materials failure, to which they have between exposed in their second and third years, so that they can assess the integrity of engineering components. Damage tolerance of components in elastic and elastic-plastic regimes will be examined and experimental and numerical methods to obtain fracture parameters are explained. This unit will prepare the students in ‘hard’ technical skills as well as ‘soft’ skills such as teamwork, self-management and project management. Examples of engineering failures from both technical and non-technical (i.e. their root cause due to breakdown in communication and misinterpretation of rules) will be discussed. The concept of "fitness for service (FFS)" is introduced and FFS codes in different industries such as oil and gas and nuclear are reviewed.
The aims of this course are to:
By the end of the course, students should be able to:
Contribute to a task within a team that is using codes of practice to assess simple structures in class.
Students receive 2 hours of lectures per week for the new material, problem solving and tutorial solutions. Written hand-outs (PowerPoints) are provided to support the lectures. Relevant standards will be available to them as part of course material. The lectures will be delivered by M. Mostafavi and Professor Hadley, Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor in Structural Integrity, TWI (The Welding Institute). Industrial case studies will be delivered by Professor Hadley with an emphasis on the role of soft skills (e.g. teamwork) employed to carry out all the tasks (technical and managerial) in the case studies.
2 hour exam (100%)