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ME 360L - Mechanical Engineering Design III
Bob Greenlee - ME Building 323 - Phone 277-5613 - Email: bgreen@unm.edu
Office Hours: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Monday - Thursday

Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design - 9th edition - Budynas and Nisbett

Pro/Engineer Wildfire 5.0 - MECHANICA Tutorial (Structure / Thermal) - Rodger Toogood (Lab)

Week
Date
Description
1
8/22
Introduction to Class - Units - Safety Factors (1-14)
8/24
Stress strain Curve (2-1, 2-3) - Free Body Diagrams
Lab
Review of Pro/E - Read Chapters 1 and 2 in Mechanica
2
8/29
Singularity Functions
8/31
More Singularity Functions
Lab
Chapter 3 - Solids Modeling 1
3
9/5
Labor Day - NO CLASS
9/7
Mohr's Circle (3-4, 3-5, 3-6)
Lab
Chapter 4 - Solids Modeling 2
4
9/12
3D Stresses (3-7, 3-8, 3-9)
9/14
Transverse shear, torsion (3-11, 3-12)
Lab
Chapter 5 - Plane Stress and Plane Strain
5
9/19
Stress Concentration factors (3-13)
9/21
Problems and Review
Lab
Chapter 6 - Axisymmetric Solids and Shells
6
9/26
Exam I
9/28
Static Failure Theories (5-1, 5-2, 5-3)
Lab
Chapter 7 - Shell Models
7
10/3
Ductile Materials, von Mises Stresses (5-4, 5-5, 5-7)
10/5
Brittle Materials (509, 5-10)
Lab
Chapter 8 Beams and Frames
8
10/10
Fatigue Failure (6-1, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4)
10/12
No Lecture
Lab
Lab Exam 10/11, Fall Break 10/13
9
10/17
S-N Curve (6-7, 6-8, 6-9)
10/19
More Stress concentration, Torsional Loads, Combining Loads (6-11, 6-12, 6-13)
Lab
Chapter 9 - Miscellaneous Topics
10
10/24
General Fatigue Problems
10/26
General Fatigue method (6-14, 6-15)
Lab
Chapter 10 - Thermal Modeling
11
10/31
Project Introduction
11/2
Exam II
Lab
Work on Project
12
11/7
Idealization and symetry - Impact loads
11/9
To be determined
Lab
Work on Project
13
11/14
To be determined
11/16
To be determined
Lab
Work on Project
14
11/21
To be determined
11/23
Thanksgiving Holiday - no lecture
Lab
Lab exam 11/22 - Thanksgiving 11/24 - no lab
15
11/28
To be determined
11/30
EXAM III
Lab Work on Project
16
12/5
Work on Project
12/7
Project Presentations
Lab Project Presentations