Calendar: 1957-1958 Page 194

196 FACULTY OF ENGINEERING 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 Three-dimensional stress and strain analysis Mohr's circle for three- dimensional stress Bending of beams of large initial curvature Proof rings Circular arc cantilevers Theory of bending of plates Experimental stress analysis Elements of plastic stress-strain relationship Laboratory One afternoon in alternate weeks Tension tests to fracture Tension and bending tests of timber Calibration of proof ring The circular arc cantilever Electrical resistance strain gauge experiments Photo-elasticity demonstrations Deflection of truss Individual Problem Students will in addition devote substantial part of their time to an individual experimental analytical or design problem on which they will be required to present bound report at the end of the year THE CIVIL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING LABORATORIES The Laboratories are open from 10 to daily except Saturdays The equipment includes the following apparatus Heat Engines and Applied Thermodynamics Ruston steam boiler Bellis and Morcom compound steam engine De Laval steam turbine surface condenser and air pump Crossley gas engine Robey heavy oil engine high-speed oil engine Russell-Newbury high-speed oil engine Douglas single-cylinder petrol engine Ricardo variable-compression engine hydraulic and other dynamometers two-stage reciprocating air compressor rotary air compressor ammonia refrigerator freon refrigerator Ewing's balancing machine calorimeters for solid liquid and gaseous fuel apparatus for determining properties of steam optical and other indicators Farnboro electrical indicator cathode-ray indicators viscometers and flash-point apparatus Paxman demonstration engine Strength of Materials and Structures 112-ton Avery horizontal testing machine 30-ton Avery self-indi- eating universal testing machine 20-ton Avery vertical testing machine for tension compression and bending 200-ton compression tester Denison testing machine for wire and beams 000 lbs