TEN 453 Product Design and Prototyping for Industry

Credits: 3 (2-3-4)

Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Faculty of Engineering, Thammasat University

1st semester 2005

 

 

 

Lecturers:

Dr. Wiroj  Limtrakarn

Room 413, Tel. 3144, E–mail :limwiroj@engr.tu.ac.th

 

 

Web page: www.engr.tu.ac.th/~limwiroj/teaching.html

Objectives:

1.To understand product design concept and implement to industry product

2.To understand prototyping concept for industry product.

Course Description:     

        Principle of industrial products design process, creative idea, computer aided product design and prototyping: metals and plastics, simulation and optimization, computer graphics, database and data transfer of machine tools, prototyping method.

 

Tentative Schedule:

Weeks

Topics

Date

Remarks

1

Introduction to Product Design

Meet  FEA  Software

4/6/05

Lecture

Lab.

2

Computer–Aided Design/Computer–Aided Engineering

Heat Transfer Analysis Workshop # 1

11/6/05

Lecture

Lab.

3–4

Introduction to Finite Element Method/Direct Approach

Heat Transfer Analysis Workshop # 2, 3

18, 25/6/05

Lecture

Lab.

5–7

Method of weighted residuals

Modeling & Beam Workshop

2, 9, 16/7/05

Lecture

Lab.

8

Mid–Term

23/7/05

 

9

Numerical interpolation function and integration

Plane Stress Workshop

30/7/05

Lecture

Lab.

10–12

Finite element method in heat transfer

Axisymmetric & Nonlinear Solid Mechanics Workshop

6, 13, 20/8/05

Lecture

Lab.

13–15

Finite element method in solid mechanics

Nonlinear Solid Mechanics Workshop

27/8, 3, 10/9/05

Lecture

Lab.

16

Rapid Prototyping for Industry

Combine Element Workshop

17/9/05

Lecture

Lab.

17

Final Exam.

24/9/05

 

 

References:

1.    “ÃÐàºÕºÇÔ¸Õä¿ä¹µìàÍÅÔàÁ¹µì㹧ҹÇÔÈÇ¡ÃÃÁ”, »ÃÒâÁ·Âì  à´ªÐÍÓä¾,  Êӹѡ¾ÔÁ¾ì¨ØÌÒŧ¡Ã³ìÁËÒÇÔ·ÂÒÅÑÂ

2.    “Numerical Methods for Engineers”, Chapra, S. C., Canale, R. P., Second Edition, 1990, McGraw–Hill Press.

3.     The Finite Element Method. Fifth Ed., Zienkiewicz, O. C.  Taylor, R. L., 2000, Woburn: Butterworth-Heinemann.

4.   Total Design, Stuart Pugh, 1995, Addison–Wesley Publishers.

5.   Fundamentals Machine Elements, Bernard J. Hamrock, Bo Jacobson, Steven R. Schmid, 1999, McGRAW-HILL International Editions.

 

Evaluations:

1.  Assignment & Attention in subject                                20

2.  Mid–Term examination                                30

3.  Final Examination                                30

4.  Project                        20

 

Minimum of 80% attendance is required to pass this course.