MATS347 Composites Design and Manufacture

Composites Design and Manufacture

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Composites Design and Manufacture is a core module for "with composites engineering as a specialist pathway" available to students on BEng/MEng (honours) Mechanical Engineering (UCAS codes are H300 (BEng)/H304 (MEng)) or BEng/MEng (honours) Marine Technology courses (UCAS codes are J610 (BEng)/J612 (MEng)). The composites degree is accredited by both IMechE and IOM3 (see links in the menu to the right or the Table below). This module was an option embedded in STAD322 for the BEng/MEng (honours) Civil Engineering course during 2007-2012. The Digital Learning Environment (MooDLE) and Definitive Module Record (DMR) can be accessed via the following links if you have University of Plymouth login credentials:

MATS347 MooDLE Student Portal.
MATS347 module record (20 level-3 credits) 50% by examination and 50% by coursework.

For the MEC course, this module is complemented by two other modules: MATS348 Composites Engineering and MFRG311 Quality Management II. These three modules are regarded as integral parts of the learning for this degree pathway and will be essential to satisfactory completion of the course. These modules provide an integrated approach to structural analysis, design, materials and processing selection, and quality issues for composite materials. This module aims to:

develop a broad understanding of the diverse range of constituent materials and to appreciate the principles which guide their selection for engineering applications
appreciate the range of manufacturing processes for composite materials and to understand the interactions between manufacture, quality and performance.

The support material for this course has been partitioned into the following sections:

Theme	Topic (book icon from SoftIcons)	Lecturer	Reading lists ( = recommended key texts)
A	Materials Selection and Characterisation	John Summerscales	ILS TalisAspire JS' list A
B	Stress Analysis (now in MATS348)	Maozhou Meng (formerly Stephen Grove)	ILS TalisAspire JS' list B
C	Manufacturing Processes	John Summerscales	ILS TalisAspire JS' list C

Brief overviews:

Materials selection

Composites manufacturing

Composites characterisation

This twenty-credit module was "new" in Academic Year 2004/05 as MATS324 and renumbered as MATS347 from AY 2015/16. It combines two former ten-credit modules:

Former module codes	2004-2015	2003-2004	2001-2003	1995-2001	1993-1995	1990-1993
Composites Design	MATS 324	MATS 322	MATS 318	MATS 313	MATS 302	MC3.1 Materials for composites MC3.2 Engineering composite structures
Composites Manufacture	MATS 324	MATS 323	MATS 319	MATS 314	MATS 303	MC3.3 Composite manufacturing processes MC3.4 Composite manufacturing systems

Do consider membership of the following professional organisations, not least because the composites BEng degree is accredited by the first two:

Primo is the single place where you can find resources to support your learning, teaching and research.
The Library catalogue uses the Dewey system. The following shelfmarks are relevant to this course:

Composite materials	Man-made fibres	Polymer chemistry	Polymer technology	Reinforced plastics	Textiles
620.118	547.85	547.84	668.4	620.1923	677

Fibre-reinforced polymer-matrix composite materials and structures:
links for case studies, courses, resources, software, suppliers, videos

The following resources cover most issues:

SM Lee (editor), International Encyclopedia of Composites v1 v2 v3 v4 v5 v6, VCH Publishers, 1990.
A Kelly and C Zweben, Comprehensive Composite Materials six-volume encyclopedia, Elsevier, 2000.
L Nicolais and A Borzacchiello (editors), Wiley Encyclopedia of Composites, five volumes, 2011 (not yet available in Plymouth University Library).

The Granta CES EduPack software is "the world-leading teaching resource for materials in engineering, science, processing and design". The Plymouth University license agreement permits students and staff to load the software on their home computer/laptop. The instructions can be found in the announcements on the MATS347 and MATS232 MooDLE sites.

HEALTH & SAFETY
It is important that all students are aware of the Health and Safety considerations for this module. You will be required to attend the Health and Safety presentation and to sign to confirm that you have done so before you will be allowed to use the facilities in the ACMC laboratory (Brunel 007). This support material can be accessed online.

ADVANCED COMPOSITES MANUFACTURING CENTRE
The centre (usually abbreviated to ACMC) embraces the undergraduate teaching, postgraduate research and commercial research - development - consultancy activities within the School of Engineering at the University of Plymouth.

COMSOL MATERIALS LIBRARY
The Material Library contains data for 2500 materials including the elements, minerals, soil, metal alloys, oxides, steels, thermal insulators, semiconductors, and optical materials. You specify a material in the Material Library browser, which enables you to easily find the desired material by name, or UNS (Unified Numbering System) number. Each material is represented by referenced property functions for as many as 24 key material properties, such as thermal, elastic, or electrical properties, depending on some variable, typically temperature. You can plot and inspect these function definitions, as well as change and add to them. They are then used in any coupling to other physics simulations that also depend on the property function variable in your multiphysics modelling.

ONLINE RESOURCES
If you are working off-campus and need Athens authentication to access PlymNet electronic resources (you will need your PlymNet ID and password), precede the URL with ...
https://exchange.plymouth.ac.uk/portal/library/rl=

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Updated by John Summerscales on 21-Feb-2021 20:53. Terms and conditions. Errors and omissions. Corrections.