Effect of high strain rates on materials response:
Basic concepts of time-independent plasticity – Yielding, Hardening, consistency condition and normality rule – Path-dependent response in elastoplasticity – Triaxial and Deviatoric parameters – Basics of ductile damage mechanisms – Wierzbicki-based damage models - Time-dependent plasticity of materials – Dynamic hardening - Johnson-Cook, Zerilli-Armstrong and Cowper-Symonds models – basic concepts of wave propagation in elastic solids – test methods at high strain rates – Hopkinson bar, working principles and practical problems.
Finite elements method and matrix methods for statics and dynamics:
Matrix method for monodimensional plane structures - Stiffness matrix for an element - Global /local reference rotation matrix - Structure stiffness matrix - Permutation of dof and stiffness partitioning - Nodal displacements and reaction loads - Internal and external constraints - Element geometry, nodal displacement approximating polynomials - Shape functions - Differentiation and strains - Stress-load relationship - Principle of virtual work, - Truss element - Euler beam - - 4 nodes plane membrane element - 4 nodes plane shell element - Isoparametric formulation - Gauss integration - Consistency and direct lumping for mass matrices - Matrix Equations for dynamic equilibrium - Free undamped oscillatory solution - Rayleigh damping - State equations for damped oscillatory motion - Transitory and regimen damped oscillations
Rotating discs:
Fundamental equations - constant thickness disc - effect of shaft and blade supporting ring - Hyperbolic, conical and uniform stress profile discs - Grammel method for arbitrary shape discs - Thermal stresses in discs with arbirtary profile – Centrifugal stress due to radial blades - Stress concentation around holes
Critical speed of shafts:
Shaft with a single lumped mass - Critical speed, eccentricity, oscillations - Effect of transverse inertia - Effect of axial stress - Effect of shear stress - Shaft with multiple lumped masses - Equivalent shaft - Dunkerley formula - Shaft with distributed mass - Stodola method for 1st critical speed – Koch, Giovannozzi and Risitano methods for 2nd ctitical speed - Vibration modes, eigenvalues and eigenvectors.
Torsional vibrations of shafts:
Introduction to torsional vibrations - Equivalent system for a torsionally vibrating shaft - Free and forced solutions for torsional vibrations of a shaft - Frequencies of series and parallel shafts systems - Inertia reduction to crank axis for traslating and rotating components of piston engines - Armonic decomposition of torque induced by pressure and inertia - Main and secondary armonics in multi cylinder engines - Resonating armonics - Vibration amplitude of forced and resonating armonics - dynamic stress on crankshafts
Main components of piston engines:
Design of piston pins - Design of connecting rod arm and eyes - Design of piston rings.
Transmission gears:
Straight teeth conical gears - Tredgold model - Selection of gear parameters - Loads on conical gears - Helicoidal gears - front profile and normal profile - Arc of action and effective width - Selection of gear parameters - Loads on cylindrical gears with helicoidal teeth– Conical gears with helicoidal teeth – Tipical shapes of inclined teeth – Planar/conical equivalent gear - Selection of gear parameters - Loads on conical gears with helicoidal teeth.
1) Appunti delle lezioni
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4) Dispensa K. R. Gurley, CES 4141 Notes, http://users.ce.ufl.edu/~kgurl/
5) Dispensa H. Gavin, CE 283 Notes, http://www.duke.edu/~hpgavin/ce283/beam.pdf
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8) Estratto Vignocchi D. “Elementi di progettazione del motore”, Athena;
9) Estratto Cophra A., “Dynamics of Structures Theory and Application”;
10) Estratto Zienkiewicz O. C., Taylor R. L., “The finite elements method”;
11) Lecture Notes (draft);