2022/23 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue
JACO0001 Materials Selection and Processing
12 creditsClass Size: 20
Module manager: Professor Bruno Trindade
Email: bruno.trindade@dem.uc.pt
Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable
Year running 2022/23
Pre-requisite qualifications
Min 2(i) Engineering or Physical SciencesThis module is not approved as an Elective
Objectives
The objectives of the Materials and Fabrication Processes Selection course can be summarized by the learning of a methodology to proceed, in a systematic way, to progressively reduce the endless number of materials available in the market. By consecutive steps, material groups with sizes successively smaller are achieved until reaching a final detailed analysis which will allow an optimized selection of the best option. The competences supplied to the students should also reinforce the knowledge already acquired previously in Materials Science and Engineering, particularly concerning its application in the industrial environment and its application in useful life, in order to understand the close relationship existing between the material and the technology used for processing the final product.Learning outcomes
The competences supplied to the students should also reinforce the knowledge already acquired previously in Materials Science and Engineering, particularly concerning its application in the industrial environment and its application in useful life, in order to understand the close relationship existing between the material and the technology used for processing the final product.
Skills outcomes
Analysis and synthesis
Ability to decide
Critical reasoning
Leadership
Initiative and entrepreneurship
Ability to apply in practical situations the theory
Syllabus
1. Introduction and objectives
2. Interaction between mechanical design and materials selection, equivalence between dimension of materials groups and detail level of mechanical analysis
3. Analysis of materials classes and properties, graphics and tables properties
4. Importance of the part or component on the materials selection, performance index
5. Relationship between material /function/shape (shape factor)
6. Materials and fabrication technologies, forming and assembling.
7. Cost as man factor determining the materials selection
8. Selection matrixes
9. Cases study
Teaching methods
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
| Lecture | 14 | 1.00 | 14.00 |
| Practical | 21 | 1.00 | 21.00 |
| Tutorial | 14 | 1.00 | 14.00 |
| Private study hours | 71.00 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 49.00 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 120.00 | ||
Methods of assessment
Coursework
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
| Project | Report | 60.00 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 60.00 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
Exams
| Exam type | Exam duration | % of formal assessment |
| Standard exam (closed essays, MCQs etc) | 0 hr | 40.00 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Exams) | 40.00 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
Reading list
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