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TMM4112

Machine Elements

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Credits 7.5
Level Third-year courses, level III
Course start Autumn 2024
Duration 1 semester
Language of instruction Norwegian
Location Trondheim
Examination arrangement School exam

About

About the course

Course content

Basic functions of machines and machine elements and their mechanical integrity. This includes, but not limited to:

  • Fatigue design: including Wöhler curve and Haigh/Smith diagrams, Fatigue limit, Reduction factors, Stress concentrations, Multi-axial stresses, Spectrum fatigue lifetime.
  • Machine and rotor dynamics: Spring supported machines, critical speed/rpm, static and dynamic balancing.
  • Mechanisms and transmissions: Mechanics of the screw, gears.
  • Couplings and brakes: Disc break (evenly distributed pressure and wear), drum brake (internal and external), fixed and releaseable couplings.
  • Bearings: roller bearings, bearing design, life time assessment.
  • Springs: torsion, coil, leaf, ring and rubber springs.
  • Press and shrink-fit connections: deformation of thick-walled tubes, tolerances and fits.
  • Bolts: threads, load carrying capacity, pretension, tightening/torque moment, bolt diagram.
  • Welded joints: static and fatigue analyses.

Learning outcome

Knowledge: The student has knowledge of:

  • Machine elements and their design, functional principles, mechanisms, and integration in machinery.
  • The functions of some common machine elements and the solution of design and engineering problems associated with these.
  • How to establish structural and dynamics models for mechanical behavior with basis in subsystem or component.
  • The application of design criteria for different (mechanical) functional and design requirements for various machine elements and components.
  • Choice of reasonable design and engineering solutions with basis in basic understanding of mechanical behavior and design criteria.

Technical skills: The student shall master the following:

  • Apply knowledge from basic courses such as mathematics, physics, mechanics, statics, (strength of) materials to evaluate, design and engineer real components/machine elements.
  • Simplify basic machine systems into representative models for mechanical analysis.
  • Perform simple predictions, providing a basis for more effective and right evaluation of critical factors and issues associated with (design) robustness of machine components.
  • Provide the necessary competence to carefully evaluate results obtained by more advanced numerical analysis methods such as FEM.

General competence: The student shall on general basis understand:

  • Main steps and considerations included in a design process for machine elements. - Understand on general basis reasonable, sound design principles for selected machine components.
  • General design and engineering principles for machine elements subjected to static and dynamic loads.
  • On an independent basis capture knowledge of more complex machine elements and design and engineering principles.

Learning methods and activities

Lectures, demonstrations, exercises.

Compulsory assignments

  • Exercises

Further on evaluation

There will be mandatory exercises to be handed in on blackboard. Admission to the written examination requires approval of at least 2/3 of the exercises.

If there is a re-sit examination, the examination form may be changed from written to oral.

Required previous knowledge

Students are expected to have a basic understanding of mechanics of materials, failure criteria, statics and machine dynamics.

Course materials

Will be announced at the start of the semester

Credit reductions

Course code Reduction From
MAST2001 6 sp Autumn 2024
This course has academic overlap with the course in the table above. If you take overlapping courses, you will receive a credit reduction in the course where you have the lowest grade. If the grades are the same, the reduction will be applied to the course completed most recently.

Subject areas

  • Technological subjects

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