MECH&AE C156B

Mechanical Design for Power Transmission

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Material selection in mechanical design. Load and stress analysis. Deflection and stiffness. Failure due to static loading. Fatigue failure. Design for safety factors and reliability. Applications of failure prevention in design of power transmission shafting. Design project involving computer-aided design (CAD) and finite element analysis (FEA) modeling. Concurrently scheduled with course C296A.

Letter grading.

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Requisite: course 156A or 166A.

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MECH&AE C156B

MECH&AE 156AAdvanced Strength of Materials
- MECH&AE 82Mathematics of Engineering
  - MECH&AE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB
  - MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications2 more beneath
- MECH&AE 101Statics and Strength of Materials
  - MATH 31A

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