Probability concepts and random variables. Failure rates and reliability testing. Wear-in, wear-out, random failures. Probabilistic treatment of loads, capacity, safety factors. Reliability of ...

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Fundamentals of heat transfer by conduction, convection, radiation. Steady and transient heat conduction in solids. Forced and free convection in fluids. properties of thermal radiation. Radiation ...

Understanding the fundamental mechanics of manufacturing processes is essential for process design, control, monitoring and innovation. This new course focuses on the mechanics of representative ...

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ME 340-1 (Introduction to Manufacturing Processes) or permission of instructor. The explosion of micro-scale product development in consumer markets including healthcare, communications, defense, ...

Introduction to modern computational methods for calculating thermodynamic, transport, and structural properties of materials. Computational chemistry, molecular simulation, and mesoscopic methods, ...

Numerical methods for interaction and optimal CAD. Fully stressed design; design sensitivity analysis and descent methods; optimality criteria to automated design. As structures and mechanisms grow ...

Introduction to microelectromechanical devices with an emphasis on their manufacturing and mechanical behavior. Material properties, microfabrication technology, mechanical behavior of of ...

Introduction to the formulation and implementation of inelastic constitutive relations for solids. Viscoelasticity, rate-independent plasticity, viscoplasticity. State variable descriptions and ...

Factors influencing the proportioning of machine elements: stresses, deformations, and failure criteria as applied to shafts, springs, belts, bearings, gears. Design of Elements is a required course ...

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