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3.00 Credits
Theory and applications of reliability and risk assessment. Boolean algebra, logic diagrams, redundancy, and majority- vote configurations. System synthesis by reliability and fault tree techniques, quantitative evaluation, uncertainty analysis. Common cause events, failure data, and failure models. Allocation of risk to subsystems. Availability, repair policies, renewal theory. Operational reliability methods. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: MANE 4050 and MATH 4600. When Offered: Offered on availability of faculty. Credit Hours: 3
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An introduction to the principles underlying the thermal-hydraulic design of nuclear power reactors. Topics include plant thermal limits, sub-channel analysis, thermal-hydraulic stability analysis, and reactor system response during both normal and postulated accident conditions. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MANE 6840 or equivalent. When Offered: Offered on availability of faculty. Credit Hours: 3
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The physical metallurgy and associated physical chemistry of problems encountered in the application of materials in nuclear reactors is discussed. Specifically, the metallurgy and physical chemistry of ceramic fuels (e.g., oxygen potentials), the primary fuel densification and pellet-clad interaction mechanisms, irradiation-induced creep, hardening, and embrittlement mechanisms, and the properties of zircalloy are covered. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MANE 4480. When Offered: Offered on availability of faculty. Credit Hours: 3
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Principles and design of spectrometers and accelerators; NMR, ESR, Mossbauer methods, lasers, microwave devices, and combinations of these; sources, beam transport and focusing; targets and effects. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MANE 4410. When Offered: Spring term alternate years. Credit Hours: 3
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A fundamental course in dynamics of rigid and flexible bodies. Review of kinematics and Newtonian dynamics; virtual variations and fundamentals of calculus of variations; generalized coordinates, velocities and momenta; constraints; generalized Hamilton's principle and Lagrangean dynamics; rotational dynamics, orientation angles and Euler parameters; brief introduction to the analysis of nonlinear systems and stability of motion. Applications to the motion of rigid and flexible bodies. The role of symbolic manipulation in dynamics is introduced. When Offered: Fall term annually. Credit Hours: 3
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Introduction to celestial mechanics, orbits, and perturbations, exterior ballistics, powered flight trajectories, space flight trajectories. When Offered: Offered on sufficient demand. Credit Hours: 3
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Analytical and numerical analysis of dynamic behavior of multibody mechanical systems. Emphasis on understanding all aspects of modeling and analysis process associated with real (spacecraft, automotive, biomechanical, etc.) systems. Review of traditional dynamic analysis methods (Newtonian-Euler, Lagrange, etc.), presentation of more efficient, powerful, recently developed methods (including Kane's method). Comparison of the different formulations and their applicability to computer simulation. Treatment of constraints, extraction of data from equations of motion, and computational issues. When Offered: Spring term alternate years. Credit Hours: 3
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A fundamental course in nonlinear vibrations and stability. Basic concepts about linear and nonlinear systems; Routh-Hurwitz and Liapunov's stability criteria; systems with periodic coefficients and Floquet theory; effects of nonlinearities; limit cycles, jump, saturation, nonlinear resonances, modal energy exchange, etc.; perturbation methods: straightforward perturbations, Lindstedt-Poincare, harmonic balancing, multiple time scales; steady-state and transient responses of nonlinear systems. Applications to discrete and structural systems. Use of symbolic manipulation to analyze problems. When Offered: Spring term annually. Credit Hours: 3
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Modeling and analysis of common manufacturing processes. Topics include bulk-forming, sheet-forming, and casting processes. Classical analysis techniques, upper bound analysis, slip-line field theory, asymptotic methods, and the finite element method are investigated. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MANE 4330 or MANE 6170 or equivalent. When Offered: Offered on sufficient demand. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
Failure of structural materials under cyclic stress. Topics include historical review, low cycle fatigue, role of cyclic plastic strain, mean stress, notch behavior, fatigue crack initiation and propagation, fracture mechanics approaches, J-Integral and short crack problems, environment, elevated temperature, testing methods. When Offered: Spring term annually . Credit Hours: 3
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