Mechanical Design

3 credits

Design of shafts and welded joints. Fatigue and fracture considerations in design: failure types, failure under static and dynamic loading, fatigue failure, crack initiation, and propagation. Introduction to the FEM in mechanical design. Students can only receive credit for one of MECH_V 326 or MECH_V 426. [2-0-3] Prerequisite: One of MECH_V 223, MECH_V 260. Corequisite: MECH_V 360. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.