Advanced Dynamics

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2016:

Estimated 200 hours

One of the following subjects:

For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Student Support and Engagement Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Overview, Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Generic Skills sections of this entry.

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This subject continues from Dynamics to deepen the students’ understanding of Engineering Mechanics, specifically focusing on Analytical Mechanics:

• Kinematics and Generalised Coordinates
• Virtual Work and Virtual Displacement, Generalised Force
• Energies: Kinetic, Potential
• Lagrange approach: dealing with constraints
• Lagrange’s Approach to obtaining equation of motion
• Comparison to Newton-Euler Approach
• Hamiltonian Mechanics
• Linearisation of system dynamics about equilibrium points (system stability about equilibrium points.

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

Having completed this unit the student is expected to be able to:

1. Independently formulate physical and mathematical models for three-dimensional dynamic analysis of mechanical systems
2. Solve the mathematical models by means of specialised analytical and numerical methods.

• One written 3 hour closed book end of semester examination (60%). ILOs 1-2 are addressed in the exam.
• One mid-semester 1 hour test in week 8 (10%), ILOs 1-2 are addressed in the test.
• Three written assignments not exceeding 30 pages in total (30-35 hours of work), due in weeks 4, 6, and 11 (30%). ILOs 1-2 are addressed in these assignments.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

On completion of the subject students should have the following skills:

• Ability to apply knowledge of science and engineering fundamentals
• Ability to undertake problem identification, formulation, and solution
• Ability to utilise a systems approach to complex problems and to design and operational performance
• Ability to communicate effectively, with the engineering team and with the community at large
• Capacity for lifelong learning and professional development.