This experience allows students to see how experimental procedures are performed in an industrial setting. Students in Machine Design investigate theories of failure of machine components, and thus learn to analyze and design components to predict and avoid failure. Students will investigate static loading, fatigue loading, surface loading, and their associated modes of failure. Specific component types, such as fasteners, springs, bearings, gears, brakes and shafts will be covered. The resulting difference equations are represented in block diagrams and signal-flow graphs comprised of integrators, differentiators, and amplifiers.
Attention is given to issues of sample-period selection, stability, and discrete controller design.
Laplace transform methods are used to generate the frequency response of continuous systems. Frequency domain methods such as root locus, phase margin, and gain margin are introduced as tools for the design of continuous controllers. Laboratory and team project work focuses on issues of implementation of computer control. This course examines the fundamental modes by which heat is transferred, namely conduction, convection, and radiation. The theory behind each of these heat transfer modes is presented and then applied to the design and analysis of practical engineering problems and devices.