GRANTE professors belong to the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UFSC, which offers undergraduate courses for various engineering programmes (Mechanical, Electrical, Mechanical Production, Chemical, Sanitary). The undergraduate subjects normally taught by the team are:
Federal University of Santa Catarina
Department of Mechanical Engineering (EMC)
SOLID MECHANICS A – 72 hours course
SYLLABUS
Design concepts.
Conception, preliminary design, detailed design, analysis.
Types of analysis.
Experimental analysis, simulation analysis with models.
Types of models.
Mechanical models, mathematical models, numerical models.
Types of models used in Solid Mechanics: bars, beams, shells, solids.
Identification and idealisation of models in terms of their geometric shape, loading, materials and boundary conditions.
Internal loads.
Reactions.
Diagrams.
Stresses in trusses.
Stresses.
State of stress.
Differential equations of equations.
Transformation of stresses and strains.
Failure criteria.
Uniaxial stresses, pins, columns, stresses in trusses.
Deformations, definitions, strain-displacement relationships.
Transformation of deformations.
Stress-strain diagrams, Hooke’s Law.
Axial deformations in members and hyperstatic problems in members.
Simple plane bending, oblique bending, asymmetric sections. sections.
Shear in long beams. Torsion. Composite stresses.
Federal University of Santa Catarina
Department of Mechanical Engineering (EMC)
SOLID MECHANICS B – 108 hours course
SYLLABUS
Introduce the concepts of displacement fields, stresses and energy energy and apply them through the fundamental equations of solid mechanics: kinematic, equilibrium and constitutive equations, elastic
and identification of boundary conditions in mechanical problems.
Stress fields in thin cylindrical and spherical shells.
Solution of the deflection problem of isostatic and hyperstatic beams using the method of integrating the equilibrium differential equation.
Elastic and inelastic buckling of bars.
Introduction to the finite element method for bars and beams in plane and spatial structures.
Provide students with an integrated view of the failure problem of a mechanical system.
Definition of failure mode.
Metal fatigue theory by crack nucleation.
Stress-life curve.
Stress concentration in notches.
Effect of effect.
Plastic bending stresses in beams.
Effects of residual on fatigue life.
Federal University of Santa Catarina
Department of Mechanical Engineering (EMC)
COMPUTATIONAL SOLID MECHANICS A – 72 hours course
SYLLABUS
Solid Mechanics revision. Stress tensor. Finite and infinitesimal strain tensor. Constitutive relations. Linear elastic material. Equilibrium differential equation. Principle of Virtual Work. Principle of Minimum Deformation Energy. Finite Element Approximation. Element Approximation. Finite elements of beams, bars, plane states of deformation and stress. Solid elements of revolution, 3D solids and plates. Recommendations for modelling techniques and practice with commercial software.
Federal University of Santa Catarina
Department of Mechanical Engineering (EMC)
COMPUTATIONAL SOLID MECHANICS B – 72 hours course
SYLLABUS
Structural dynamics. Numerical modelling of structural vibrations. Stability of structures. Stability of structures by numerical methods. Numerical modelling of structural plasticity.
Federal University of Santa Catarina
Department of Mechanical Engineering (EMC)
MOTOR VEHICLES – 72 hours course
SYLLABUS
Introduction; types of structure; actions; links; support reactions; equations of static equilibrium; degree of staticity; internal forces in isostatic structures: plane trusses – node equilibrium method,
Ritter method, Cremona method; beams – section method, area method, direct method; Gerber beams; plane and spatial cables; arches; influence lines in isostatic structures.
