MECH&AE C296A
Material Failure in Mechanical Design I: Power Transmission
Description: (Formerly numbered 296A.) Lecture, four hours; outside study, eight hours. Enforced requisite: course 156A or 166A. Material selection in mechanical design. Load and stress analysis. Deflection and stiffness. Failure due to static loading. Fatigue failure. Design for safety factors and reliability. Statistical considerations in design. Applications of failure prevention in design of power transmission shafting. Design project involving computer-aided design (CAD) and finite element analysis (FEA) modeling. Concurrently scheduled with course C156B. Letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0