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SEM327 - Dynamics of Machines

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2022 unit information

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Last updated: 4 March 2022

Enrolment modes:Trimester 2: Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online
Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Previously coded as:

SEM318

Unit Chair:Trimester 2: Ali Zolfagharian
Prerequisite:

SEM200 or SEM223

Corequisite:

Nil

Incompatible with:

Nil

Typical study commitment:

Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

Scheduled learning activities - campus:

1 x 2 hour seminar per week, 2 x 3 hour practical laboratories per trimester (CAD lab).

Scheduled learning activities - cloud:Online independent and collaborative learning including a 1 x 2 hour seminar per week. Students are required to attend and participate in practical laboratory activities at the Waurn Ponds (Geelong) Campus for the scheduled sessions during the trimester intensive activities as detailed in the unit site.

Content

This unit addresses the following topics: dynamics of machines - kinematics analysis of planar mechanisms, dynamics analysis of planar mechanisms, balancing of rotating machinery; mechanical power transmission systems - gear trains, friction clutches and belt drives; vibrations - lumped parameter models and equivalent systems, free vibration spring-mass model, damped vibration, forced vibration, vibration of multi-degree-of-freedom systems.

ULO These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes
ULO1

Demonstrate application of advanced kinetic and kinematic concepts to various mechanisms both from a practical and theoretical context.

 GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

ULO2

Recognise, develop and solve numerical problems related to kinetic and kinematic based mechanisms.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO5: Problem solving

ULO3

Research, analyse, apply and evaluate methods concerning dynamic analysis of machines power transmission systems and engineering vibrations to a range of engineering scenarios.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO5: Problem solving

ULO4

 Design of systems that involve kinetics and kinematics with respect to surrounding boundary and environmental conditions.

GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO5: Problem solving

These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year

Assessment

Assessment Description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)		 Indicative due week
Calculation based assessment  Two individual online design and calculation assignments  60% (2 x 30%) Weeks 6 and 10
Examination 2-hour written examination 40% Examination period

The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.

Hurdle requirement

To be eligible to obtain a pass in this unit students must achieve a mark of at least 40% in the examination.

Learning Resource

Prescribed text(s): Norton, 2020, Design of machinery: an introduction to the synthesis and analysis of mechanisms and machines, 6th edition, McGraw Hill OR Norton, 2011, Design of Machinery with Student Resource DVD, 5th edition, McGraw Hill.

The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: SEM327 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.

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