Code: | DIPCSC | Acronym: | CSC |
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Classification | Keyword |
OFICIAL | Engineering |
Active? | Yes |
Responsible unit: | Design |
Course/CS Responsible: | Master in Product and Industrial Design |
Acronym | No. of Students | Study Plan | Curricular Years | Credits UCN | Credits ECTS | Contact hours | Total Time |
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MDIP | 19 | Official Plan 2013 | 1 | - | 3 | 21 | 81 |
The mechanical integration of product parts is a fundamental feature to be considered on its design. It conditioned parts shape and materials and so, their production processes. Assembly easiness and its possible automation, reliability, reparability and recyclability are all factors strongly influenced by the mechanical integration methods used.
From the designer intention to include some feature in a system (rotation axis, gliding system, cover, lock, etc.) to its capacity of implementing it in an economic, reliable and long-lasting way goes a distance that can only be shortened using past experiences – many times through users evaluation and malfunctioning analysis.
Students should acquire the competence of, under a design framework, choose and propose detail solutions suited to usual product development conditions.
Description and analysis of design solutions based on joining and motion transmission components.
Description and analysis of the characteristics of each solution taking into account materials specification, production processes, assembly and disassembly operations, application area, etc. Main subjects: 1. Elements of mechanical efforts, presenting simple examples / 1.1. Traction / 1.2. Compression / 1.3. Bending / 1.4. Torsion / 1.5. Shear / 2. Joining Methods / 2.1. Fixed Joints / 2.1.1. Disassemblable / 2.1.2. Non-disassemblable /2.2. Mobile Joints / 2.2.1. Translating / 2.2.2. Rotary / 3. Elementary mechanisms / 3.1. Levers and Wedges / 3.2. Reducers / 4. Motion type transformation / 4.1. From rotation to translation / 4.2. From translation to rotation / 5. Analysis of some case studies.
Designation | Weight (%) |
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Teste | 50,00 |
Trabalho escrito | 50,00 |
Total: | 100,00 |
Designation | Time (hours) |
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Elaboração de relatório/dissertação/tese | 30,00 |
Estudo autónomo | 30,00 |
Frequência das aulas | 21,00 |
Total: | 81,00 |
The evaluation will be of the distributed type with final exam, and the students will be evaluated through 2 components:
i. A Report, written by a group of 2 students, on the search and evaluation of solutions for a case study (REP).
ii. An individual final exam (IFE).
The Final Grade (FG) will be given by: FG=0,5*REP+0,5*IFE
If the student fails the CU, he or she may do an extra exam for the IFE component only.
The same as for the other regular students
The student may only improve the IFE component of the final grade.