EGB314 Solid Mechanics

Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Gardens Point, Internal

Overview

As a mechanical/medical engineer, you must have the expertise to analyse components and systems of components to produce safe and efficient designs. Strength of Materials is an intermediate level unit which investigates how external loading produces internal stresses and strains in a solid body, and the implications of these stresses and strains for components’ strength, stiffness and robustness. Understanding this subject is an essential part of the design process that ensures the structural integrity of various structures, electromechanical devices and mechanisms. When used effectively and this process can result in lightweight, reliable and robust structures. This unit builds on the concepts from the introductory EGB121 - Engineering Mechanics unit. Future units, such as EGB210 - Fundamentals of Mechanical Design, EGB316 - Design of Machine elements and EGH414 - Stress Analysis use the knowledge and techniques developed in this subject extensively.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:

1. Apply the fundamental principles of solid mechanics, to engineering components and systems, at a developed level.
2. Solve problems regarding solid mechanics for engineering components and systems at a developed level.
3. Communicate engineering solid mechanics analysis of components and systems, including the procedure and method, at a developed level.

Content

Learning Approaches

In this unit you can expect to experience the following timetabled activities:

• Formal Lectures which introduce you to the content from a fundamental context. These activities will provide a basis for the theoretical concepts in solid mechanics and help you build the tools you need to succeed in this unit.
• Tutorials which involve solving problems with the assistance of the tutors and will help you built knowledge on the content and develop skill for solving solid mechanics problems.

• Laboratory experiments which reinforce the material taught in the lectures and tutorials and give you a more “real-world” context of this content.

The teaching in this unit is designed to encourage you to use solid mechanics concepts to model, test and verify solutions to engineering problems. Many of the theoretical concepts will be explained using the development and solution of real engineering problems.

To complement timetabled activities, all learning resources will be available on the unit Canvas site that you can access flexibly to complete your learning in this unit.

At the beginning of the unit, you will be made aware of the ways in which you can ask questions or seek clarification from the Unit Coordinator and Tutors.

Feedback on Learning and Assessment

You will receive formative feedback on your progress throughout the semester in tutorials and summative feedback on your learning progress via online quizzes throughout the semester. 

Written feedback will be provided, and verbal feedback available, for laboratory tasks and the final exam; assessment results and completed (marked) CRA sheets will be available for examination.

Assessment

Overview

As you progress through this unit you will move from fundamental engineering concepts to using those concepts in practical applications. You will develop your problem solving capability by understanding key engineering systems and applying the appropriate concepts and theory and methods to predict the behaviour of those systems, which is a key capability for professional engineering practice. The assessment for the unit is designed to assess your learning against the unit learning outcomes and includes problem solving tasks (quizzes), reporting on experimental work and a final exam, which will test your capability to diagnose and solve applied engineering problems.

Assessment will be in the form of fortnightly online problem solving quizzes, a practical laboratory and a traditional final exam.

• The fortnightly online quiz is designed to reinforce conceptual knowledge and provide feedback to learning progress throughout the semester.
• The laboratory exercises are designed to allow you to engage with the content in a tactile manner and provide a "real world" context for the solid mechanics concepts taught in this unit.
• The final exam is designed to test the knowledge and skills you have developed over the course of this unit in an independent and controlled setting.

Unit Grading Scheme

7- point scale

Assessment Tasks

Assessment: Laboratory/Practical

You will undertake some experimental tasks, the apply relevant engineering theory and concepts to evaluate the outcomes of the experiment and produce a report.

This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.

Assessment: Problem Solving Task

Solve the problems covering the lecture material from week 1 to week 12.

This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.

Assessment: Examination (written)

A written examination involving the analysis and solution of stress analysis problems using the theories and techniques covered in the unit.

"If campus access is restricted at the time of the central examination period/due date, an alternative, which may be a timed online assessment, will be offered. Individual students whose circumstances prevent their attendance on campus will be provided with an alternative assessment approach."

Academic Integrity

Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.

Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.

You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.

Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.

Resources

Resource Materials

Prescribed text(s)

Author: R.C. Hibbeler
Title: Mechanics of Materials (Tenth Edition)
Year: Publisher: 2017, Pearson

Risk Assessment Statement

You will be informed of any requirements pertaining to a safe workplace. In lectures, tutorials and such, the information will include location of fire exits and meeting points in case of fire. If you do not follow legitimate instructions or endanger the safety of others or do not act in accordance with the requirements of the Workplace Health and Safety Act, you will be required to leave the session.

You will be required to undertake practical sessions in the laboratory under the supervision of members in the teaching team and technical staff. Prior to entry to a laboratory space you must complete the Undergraduate Health, Safety and Environment Induction (annual completion requirement). You will be advised of requirements of safe and responsible behaviour and will be required to wear appropriate protective items (e.g. closed shoes or steel capped shoes, lab coat, and safety glasses). The unit’s Canvas site will provide you with a copy of the risk assessment and will provide you with details on how to perform the laboratory tasks safely.

Standards/Competencies

This unit is designed to support your development of the following standards\competencies.

Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineer

1: Knowledge and Skill Base

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2: Engineering Application Ability

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3: Professional and Personal Attributes

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Course Learning Outcomes

EN01 Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)

1. Engage stakeholders professionally and communicate the outcomes of your work effectively to expert and non-expert audiences using appropriate modes.
   Relates to: ULO3, Laboratory/Practical, Examination (written)
2. Manage projects to solve complex engineering problems, using appropriate information, engineering methods, and technologies.
   Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Laboratory/Practical, Problem Solving Task, Examination (written)
3. Demonstrate coherent knowledge and skills of physical, mathematical, statistical, computer, and information sciences that are fundamental to professional engineering practice.
   Relates to: ULO1, Problem Solving Task, Examination (written)
4. Demonstrate a thorough understanding of one engineering discipline, its research directions, and its application in contemporary professional engineering practice.
   Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Laboratory/Practical, Problem Solving Task, Examination (written)

EV01 Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)

1. Engage stakeholders professionally and communicate the outcomes of your work effectively to expert and non-expert audiences using appropriate modes.
   Relates to: Laboratory/Practical, Examination (written)
2. Manage projects to solve complex engineering problems, using appropriate information, engineering methods, and technologies.
   Relates to: Laboratory/Practical, Problem Solving Task, Examination (written)
3. Demonstrate coherent knowledge and skills of physical, mathematical, statistical, computer, and information sciences that are fundamental to professional engineering practice.
   Relates to: Problem Solving Task, Examination (written)
4. Demonstrate a thorough understanding of one engineering discipline, its research directions, and its application in contemporary professional engineering practice.
   Relates to: Laboratory/Practical, Problem Solving Task, Examination (written)