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UTA016 Engineering Design Project-I

This document contains an assignment on structural engineering and failure under dynamic loads. It provides instructions for students to complete 8 questions analyzing experimental data on dowel beam failures under static and impact loads. Students are asked to plot data, calculate stresses, deflections, dynamic factors, and check for failure of a cantilever beam under impact. The goal is for students to predict failure of components in a catapult design based on static and dynamic load analyses.

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UTA016 Engineering Design Project-I

This document contains an assignment on structural engineering and failure under dynamic loads. It provides instructions for students to complete 8 questions analyzing experimental data on dowel beam failures under static and impact loads. Students are asked to plot data, calculate stresses, deflections, dynamic factors, and check for failure of a cantilever beam under impact. The goal is for students to predict failure of components in a catapult design based on static and dynamic load analyses.

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NAME:____________________________________ Roll No:_______________ Group:_______________

This submission is original work and no part is plagiarized (signed) ___________(Date)___________

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala


ASSIGNMENT - 4.
DESIGN AGAINST FAILURE UNDER DYNAMIC ACTIONS

UTA016 Engineering Design Project-I

(Reference: Roger P West, TCD course 1E13) Page 1 of5


NAME:____________________________________ Roll No:_______________ Group:_______________
ASSIGNMENT - 4.
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING COMPONENT
DESIGN AGAINST FAILURE UNDER DYNAMIC ACTIONS

Complete the following individually, copying will be dealt with severely.

Instructions:
1. Data to be used for excel spreadsheets graphs to be created for Q2 and Q3 is
(will be provided by the respective lab instructors):

Mass (kg) Weight (N) Height Failure (m)

2. Excel spreadsheets graphs to be created for Q1 and Q2 will evaluated by


end of tutorial class. Remaining questions is to be submitted before next
tutorial class (if it is a holiday, then as instructed).

Despite this list, try and enjoy the assignment and try to think around the subject as
much as possible and take from it any tips that you might use with your own
Catapult.
When you have built your own mangonel, with your own choice of rotating arm, L2 part
(i.e. spoon: material, diameter and length) and having measured the rotational velocity on
impact using the electronic component of this project, then the procedures in Assignments
3 and 4 should allow you to make a reasonable prediction as to whether your chosen arm is
likely to fail statically when fully loaded or dynamically when the missile is released. It
would clearly be desirable to avoid an unexpected structural failure of any part during the
competition!

Marking Scheme: Assignment 3 (5 Marks)


1. Evaluation at end of Tutorial: 2.5
2. Evaluation from printout submission:2.5

(Reference: Roger P West, TCD course 1E13) Page 2 of5


NAME:____________________________________ Roll No:_______________ Group:_______________

Q1. A dowel of 0.006 m diameter (d), a beam span of 0.3 m, fails at a static failure
load of 47 N. Calculate the static failure stress in Excel sheet.

Measured Calculated Actual strength


y=d/
Span Dia Failure Force M=PL/4 2 I=d^4/64 y*M/I
L mm d mm PN Nmm mm mm^4 MPa(N/mm^2)

Q2. (a) A series of dynamic tests were performed where weights of different
magnitude were dropped onto the dowel span from different heights. The
following table was produced;
Height
Weight Strike
Mass (kg) Failure
(N) Velocity m/s
(m)

Insert a plot of weight against drop height to failure for the impact experiment.

(Table and Plot Evaluated at the end of the Tutorial class)


(b) Comment on the shape of the plot and the magnitude of the values to
failure when compared to the static failure load.

Q3. (a) From the tabulated the theoretical velocity on impact for the masses
dropped from their respective heights from Q2 produce a plot.

(Reference: Roger P West, TCD course 1E13) Page 3 of5


NAME:____________________________________ Roll No:_______________ Group:_______________

(b) Comment on this plot in comparison with the plot in Q2 above.

Q4. Using Scenario 4: Case 1 from the lecture 3 and 4 supplementary notes,
assuming a Dynamic Magnification Factor of 2, calculate the approximate
maximum dynamic force that might be applied to the beam of Q1 inducing a
stress equal to the static failure stress.

Q5. Using Scenario 4: Case 2 in the lecture 3 and 4 supplementary notes, calculate
the mass density, , (in units of kg/m3) of the timber dowel beam, the mass per
unit length, m., (in kg/m) and the load per unit length,  (in N/m). The mass
of the dowel was measured to be m=4.7g, 6mm diameter and the total length
equal to L=0.3m

Q6. Using this value for m, and selecting an overhang for the arm of 0.2m (see
Figure 3(b) in the lecture notes and slide 7 of lecture), calculate the theoretical
deflection of this cantilever of length L 2,6 mm diameter, under a static point
load equivalent to its own weight when in fully locked state of the Mangonel
arm. The value of the Young’s modulus of elasticity, E, can be assumed from
the lecture notes.

(Reference: Roger P West, TCD course 1E13) Page 4 of5


NAME:____________________________________ Roll No:_______________ Group:_______________

Q7. Due to the dynamic effect of a rotating cantilever, assumed equivalent to a


drop height of h, calculate the Dynamic Magnification Factor for a variety of
realistic impact velocities, using equation (4) in the lecture supplementary
notes. You should use here the impact velocities of Q2.

δstatic = Height h Velocity


(m) m/s
DMF
Weight of L2=

Q8. Take the velocity corresponding to the drop height of 0.25m (giving rise to a
corresponding DMF) and check that this velocity on impact will not cause the
cantilever of L2=0.2m to fail, taking failure stress from Q1, remembering that
the dynamic stress can be approximated to dynamic = static x DMF, where staticis
from last equation in lecture notes.

(Reference: Roger P West, TCD course 1E13) Page 5 of5

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