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• Offered for Year: 2020/21

• Module Leader(s): Dr Adrian Oila
• Lecturer: Dr Stevin Pramana

• Owning School: Engineering
• Teaching Location: Newcastle City Campus

Semesters

Aims

This module aims to:
•       Equip students to understand failure processes: creep, environmentally controlled fracture and fatigue that limit the life of engineering structures and to acquire the knowledge that will allow them to make estimates and predictions of the life and reliability of engineering structures.

•       Familiarise students with surface engineering principles underlying the phenomena of friction, wear and lubrication and the importance of their control in engineering practice, including the selection of materials for tribological applications (e.g. bearings), the application of surface engineering technologies and the recognition and solution of tribological problems.

•       Develop a general understanding of corrosion processes and corrosion control. To appreciate the role of chemical thermodynamics and kinetics in corrosion control and how this influences the selection of materials for engineering structures.

The failure and lifetime of engineering structures and commodity goods are often determined by the behaviour of the materials from which they are made. The behaviour of materials under service conditions that involve prolonged and/or repeated loading and exposure to chemical conditions is examined. Strategies to predict the lifetime of components are developed.

The module introduces the engineering science principles which underpin tribology, the study of friction, wear and lubrication. Premature failure of components due to wear is a driver for improved product design and the basis for tribological design is introduced. The course covers surface roughness, profilometry, contact mechanics and surface structures in order to provide an understanding of friction and wear mechanisms and how Lubrication and Surface Engineering can be used to ameliorate them.

Corrosion is a degradative process affecting many materials in day to day use. This module gives the theoretical background for the occurrence of corrosion and explains methods for controlling it, illustrating this using selected examples from industry. Aqueous corrosion will be the more common issue in engineering situations but brief discussion of dry oxidation will also be presented.

Outline Of Syllabus

Strength and deformation of metals and alloys at elevated temperature. Creep failure. Deformation maps, design against creep. Fatigue in engineering applications. Low cycle and high cycle fatigue. Manson-Coffin law, Miner’s rule, fatigue limits. Effect of stress concentrations. Surface contact fatigue. Fatigue crack growth rate. Reliability engineering, effect of distributions of applied stress and material properties.

Aqueous corrosion and corrosion control. General and localized corrosion, environmentally assisted failure to include corrosion fatigue, embrittlement and stress corrosion cracking of engineering materials with practical examples.

What is tribology? Surface shape and profile: asperities and true areas of contact. Contact mechanics: Hertz and Boussinesq stress fields and materials responses to contact stresses. The plasticity index. Friction processes: ways of controlling friction. Wear mechanisms: the Archard equation, 2 & 3-body wear; factors critically influencing wear rates. Ways of ameliorating wear. Surface engineering: techniques and examples of applications. Lubrication: boundary films hydrodynamic and solid lubricants. The behavior of bearings and bearing selection.

A brief overview of dry corrosion. Film growth mechanisms; oxidation kinetics; Pilling-Bedworth ratio. Oxidation-resistant materials and coatings. Case studies in oxidation.

Teaching Methods

Please note that module leaders are reviewing the module teaching and assessment methods for Semester 2 modules, in light of the Covid-19 restrictions. There may also be a few further changes to Semester 1 modules. Final information will be available by the end of August 2020 in for Semester 1 modules and the end of October 2020 for Semester 2 modules.

Teaching Activities

Teaching Rationale And Relationship

The recorded lectures are designed to assist the student in the acquisition of a knowledge base that will facilitate understanding of creep, fatigue, wear and corrosion of materials.

Tutorial exercises will enable students to practise analysis of systems and predict failures.

Private study will strengthen their knowledge base and enable students to tackle the calculations and problems with greater ease.

Students should consult their individual timetable for up-to-date delivery information.

Assessment Methods

Please note that module leaders are reviewing the module teaching and assessment methods for Semester 2 modules, in light of the Covid-19 restrictions. There may also be a few further changes to Semester 1 modules. Final information will be available by the end of August 2020 in for Semester 1 modules and the end of October 2020 for Semester 2 modules.

The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners

Exam Pairings

Other Assessment

Assessment Rationale And Relationship

The coursework provides an appropriate way to assess both theoretical understanding and practical problem solving skills. It also develops the ability to apply the broad base of scientific principles in conjunction with deeper knowledge and understanding in a specific subject area.

The tutorial exercises enable students to put into practice what they have learnt in class to assess the behaviour and life of components.

Reading Lists

• CME3098's Reading List

Timetable

• Timetable Website: www.ncl.ac.uk/timetable/
• CME3098's Timetable