Design Notes

These notes are supplied to assist you with design analyses you will be performing in your project. They supplement the information given in class and in your text book (Hibbeler 2000). The notes are given in PDF format, so you will need to download Acrobat Reader if you don't already have it. Click here to download.

Introduction

Engineering Design Process

Modeling

Assumptions

Axial Loading To see an animation, click here.

Axial Design: Battery Strap

Bending: Design for Strength, Stiffness and Stress Concentrations
To see the animation of two different types of bending, click the type of bending stress. Normal Bending, and Shear Bending.

Van Voorhis's notes and examples of bending and torque

Column Buckling: Design using Euler Theory

Plane Stress: Combined Loading/Stress Design Supplement

Torsion: Power Transmission and Stress Concentrations Design Supplement
To see the animation for torsion, click here.

Advanced example from www.granta.co.uk that, given enough time, EMch 13 students could do it.

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