Course topics.

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1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• Mapping civil engineering: coastal, structural, transport, water and environmental sub-disciplines
• Smart structures, composites and prefabrication: engineering for environmental extremes
• Corrosion mechanisms, protection methods and the life cycle impact of building materials
• Beam reactions at pin and roller supports under vertical, horizontal and angled loading
• Method of joints: solving truss member forces and naming tension or compression
• Method of sections and graphical truss analysis for fast member force solutions
• Shear force and bending moment diagrams for vertical point loads
• Stress, strain and Young's modulus: the three calculations that drive every Unit 3 materials question
• Reading stress-strain diagrams: timber versus low-carbon steel
• Concrete composition, reinforcement, pre-/post-tensioning and factor of safety
• Mechanical, mechatronic and biomechanical engineers: expertise applied to community problems
• Mechanical advantage and velocity ratio: levers, inclined planes, screws and pulleys
• Gear ratios, worm drives, rack and pinion, and belt drive velocity ratios
• Work, power, kinetic and potential energy, and the efficiency formula eta = MA/VR
• The three equations of uniformly accelerated motion and how to choose between them
• Static and kinetic friction, angle of repose and one-body systems on an inclined plane
• Logic gates, truth tables and constructing control circuits for real machines
• The lead-tin phase diagram and the inverse lever rule
• Ferrite, pearlite, austenite and cementite: reading the iron-carbon diagram
• Heat treatment of plain-carbon steels and the properties of ABS, PC and PA6