Calendar: 1951-1952 Page 192

SYLLABUSES OF COURSES 193 Laboratory One afternoon in alternate weeks Density determinations liquid and plastic limits mechanical analysis permeability measurement oedometer test immediate shear tests on shear box and triaxial machine settlement and stability analyses California bearing ratio test Heat Engines Lectures One per week during Michaelmas and Lent terms Heat transfer by conduction convection and radiation thermal conductivity pipe lagging porous insulating materials unsteady conditions electrical analogue and graphical methods in complicated cases Forced and natural convection heat transfer between gases and liquids and pipes wires tube nests plane surfaces roofs etc Radiation from solid bodies gases flames effect of flame shape and size More advanced study of gas turbines heat pumps and air- conditioning Theory and Design of Machines Lectures One per week during Michaelmas and Lent terms Design Classes One afternoon per week more advanced treatment of the subjects in Theory and Design of Machines Part II Design of gearing Covers Joints for high fluid pressure Pressure vessels Elementary theory of film lubrication Mechanical vibrations Elementary treatment of non-linear vibrations Graphical methods Graphical solution of differential equations Cleaning up design preparatory to manufacture Strength of Materials Lectures One per week during Michaelmas and Lent terms Analysis of strain and its graphical representation-Non-uniplanar bending-Three-dimensional stress systems and their graphical representation-Bending of beams of large initial curvature-Proof rings-Struts of initial curvature with eccentric loading with lateral loading-Circular arc cantilevers-Open-coiled helical spiral and conical springs-Experimental stress analysis Laboratory One afternoon in alternate weeks Tension tests to fracture-Tension and bending tests of timber- Compression and shear tests of rubber--Calibration of proof ring- The circular arc cantilever-Electrical resistance strain gauge experi- ments-Photo-elasticity demonstrations Individual Problem Students will in addition devote about half their time to an individual experimental analytical or design problem on which they will be required to present report or thesis