Course Details
Course Information Package
Course Unit Title | VEHICLE STRUCTURES | ||||||||||
Course Unit Code | AUTO403 | ||||||||||
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Number of ECTS credits allocated | 6 | ||||||||||
Learning Outcomes of the course unit | By the end of the course, the students should be able to:
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Mode of Delivery | Face-to-face | ||||||||||
Prerequisites | AUTO201,AMAT314 | Co-requisites | NONE | ||||||||
Recommended optional program components | NONE | ||||||||||
Course Contents | Linear elasticity application to vehicle structures: Compute the dynamic load factor, know the safety factor and the basic global load cases, list the most common vehicle structure types. Fundamental vehicle loads and their estimation. Simple structural surface method for the description of total vehicle shells. Vehicle body materials: behaviour of metallic beams of prismatic and circular sections loaded longitudinally and laterally. Behaviour of circular, rectangular and corrugated plate under bending loads. Behaviour of composite materials under in plane and bending loads. Basic failure modes: yield criteria, fracture strength, fatigue and creep. Manufacturing processes for the vehicle structures production: basic principles of forming (deep-drawing, hot-forming), casting, extrusion moulding. Joining processes in body-in-white: riveting, welding, adhesive bonding etc and structural analysis at joints. Advantages of manufacturing processes for achieving high structural properties and reduction of mass. Vehicle overall structural design: analytical calculation of joined structures, and performance of vehicle structural component analysis. Modelling vehicle structures using industrial software: Solid Works, LSDYNA and ANSYS. | ||||||||||
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods | The taught part of course is delivered to the students by means of lectures, conducted with the help of computer presentations. Lecture notes and presentations are available through the web for students to use in combination with the textbooks. Furthermore theoretical principles are explained by means of specific examples and solution of specific problems. Lectures are supplemented with computer laboratory work carried out with the supervision of a lab assistant. Here a demonstration of actual problems and computational methods takes place. Additionally, during laboratory sessions, students apply their gained knowledge and identify the principles taught in the lecture sessions by means of working on different modelling tasks and evaluating simulation results. | ||||||||||
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Language of instruction | English | ||||||||||
Work placement(s) | NO |