ME2518:03
Materials and Manufacturing Processes
| Townsville | HECS Band 2 |
39 hours lectures, 39 hours tutorials, seminars, field trips, practicals and workshops. Semester 2.
Common Engineering Materials: Properties of materials; nature of metal and alloys; equilibrium diagrams and the iron-carbon system; ferrous metals and alloys; nonferrous metals and alloys; heat treatment; non metallic materials: plastics, elastomer, ceramics and composites; materials selection.
Measurement and Quality Assurance: principles of basic measurement and gauging; sources of error; surface roughness measurement; analysis of tolerances.
Manufacturing Processes: casting processes; forming processes; materials removal processes; joining processes; CAD/CAM.
Learning Objectives:
- introduce students to the processes for manufacturing common engineering materials, and the properties which result;
- common machining and welding techniques and associated measurement methods.
Assessment by examination (50%-70%); on-course assessment (30%-50%).