TMP320 Machinery and Product Development

The course has three phases: Part 1. Basic design (August): Central topics are stress analysis and strain gages, elastic theory, composite beams and pressure/shrink connections. Part 2. Advanced design 1: Central topics are statically indeterminate beams, plasticity theory, standards, safety calculation and testing methods for complex constructions and assemblies, fatigue and lifetime calculations and stability calculations. Part 3: Advanced design 2 and project work: Fracture mechanics, Dynamic loading, energy absorption, design variables and project work. This part also includes more advanced training in Ansys WB. The project is a limited design and product development project with the submission of the report with descriptions, calculations, visualizations, and complete construction drawings. The project assignment is given by the lecturer.

Students are to gain competence in project planning and, design of complex machinery- and process-technical constructions, and in the use of computer based design and production technologies. The students are to practice development, use relevant standards and important elements of small-scale industrial production of new products. After having completed the course, the student shall have aquired knowledge on methods for calculating the properties of materials, strength and lifetime of various types of constructions and evaluate results from complex calculations and analysis tools. They shall be able to make choices concerning design and materials from considerations of strength, economy and environment, and give advice on the technical aspects of production.