34856 - Advanced tools and methods of mechanical design (2nd cycle)

Academic Year 2013/2014

  • Moduli: Giangiacomo Minak (Modulo 1) Giangiacomo Minak (Modulo 2)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Mechanical Engineering (cod. 8202)

Learning outcomes

The student will learn the set up, development and management of a machine concept design, in the functiona, production and economic point of view

Course contents

Introduction to Mechanical Design
Timing and funtional development of a project.
Reliability analysis, FMEA (Failure, Mode, Effects, Analysis)
DOE (Design Of Experiment).
Menbrane theory of thin pressure vessels.
Thick tubes
Shaft-Gear coupling by friction
Finite element method

Readings/Bibliography

G. Pahl ,W. Beitz, J. Feldhusen, K. H. Grote

Engineering Design: A Systematic Approach


Stephen P. Timoshenko, James Gere

Theory of Elastic Stability

O. C. Zienkiewicz, R. L. Taylor , J.Z. Zhu

The Finite Element Method: Its Basis and Fundamentals

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons,  design esperiences, solution of structures by PC.

Assessment methods

Written and Oral.
FEM projects.

Teaching tools

PC projector and blackboard.

Office hours

See the website of Giangiacomo Minak