Material properties and formal techniques for selection of materials for transport applications performance.
Failure mechanisms in materials.
Engineering materials and their applications.
Processing techniques for materials
Advances in materials especially 'smart' materials for design
Environmentally sensitive selection, processing and application.

This module introduces students to fundamental ideas relating to mechanical technology:-
- Free body diagrams.
- Units of measurement.
- Vector addition of forces.
- Stress and Strain relationships.
- Newtons 2nd law.
- Bending stresses in beams. (Moments of Inertia)
- Shear stress due to bending.
- Torsion of shafts.
- Fatigue in design. (Stress-life approach)
- Frictional Forces

50% Final Examination (2 hours) assessing Learning outcomes 1 and 2
50% Coursework assessing Learning outcomes 3, 4 and 5

Lectures 2 x 1 hour per week
Problem Solving Tutorials 1 hour per week
Computer Based selection
Practical Laboratory work

Cambridge Engineering Selector CES including Eco-Audit
Materials Testing Facilities - Mechanical Testers, Impact, Hardness, Metallographic Microscope

Gyroscope rig, Bending moment/shear force beam, Flywheel moment of inertia rig,
Spring stiffness rig, hardness tester rig, Deflection of Elastic Structures, Experimental thin cylinder analysis rig.

Ashby, M , Shercliff, H and Cebon D, Materials: Engineering, Science, Processing and Design (2nd edition) Elsevier 2010 978-1856178952
Rees, D.W.A, Basic Solid Mechanics, Macmillan Press Ltd, 1997, ISBN 0-333-66609-7
Watson, K.L, Foundation Science for Engineers (2nd Edition) 2003, Macmillan Press Ltd, ISBN 0-333-72545-X
Figliola R.S. & Beasley D.E., Theory and Design for Mechanical Measurements, 2011, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 978-0-470-64618-2

Prior study of CE20034-4 Introductory Mechanics and Fluids or equivalent.