Product understanding

• Gain insight into the structure of a product (design and materials usage) by taking apart a domestic product (e.g. hair dryer or angle grinder).
• Describe the mechanical properties and application of metallic materials
• Describe the mechanical properties and use of plastics and composites.
• Select metals and plastics for a given application.
• Conduct introductory laboratory investigations of the composition of materials and their material parameters, e.g. tensile test.
• Describe the concepts of stress and tension and analyse a tensile graph and apply the data that comes from the analysis of a tensile test.
• Conduct an information search within manufacturing methods.
• Gain knowledge for the basic manufacturing methods used for products made from metals and polymers (plastic).
• Use the term “material index” and use the material database program CES to select the optimal material for a given application.
• Describe and use phase diagrams, including TTT diagrams in connection with heat treatments
• Describe the concepts of hardness, impact strength, fatigue (fatigue failure) and carry through calculations of these concepts.

– The Granta Edu Pack program, structure and use. The program will be installed on the student’s computer (License paid by DTU).
– Introduction to the subjects stress and strain as well as the analysis of a strain tension graph.
– Introduction to the atomic structure of materials, crystallographic and amorphous structures.
– Introduction to and use of phase diagrams.
– The structure of metals and their applications and properties.
– The structure of polymers and their applications and properties.
– The structure of composites and their applications and properties.
– Analysis of the materials in a given component and suggestions for selecting materials to a component.
– Training in the presentation of an academic material subject.

Classroom teaching, exercises, practical exercises

Section of Mechanical Technology
Proces og Innovation: 1. semester