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ME 9: Machine Elements

Stress concentration and fatigue in shafts, gears and belts, bearings, bolted joints and springs.

Stress concentration and fatigue in shafts, gears and belts, bearings, bolted joints and springs. Free courses and textbooks, a self-check for every unit, and a build you can rerun, confirmed by people. Course 9 of the Varsity Curriculum: Mechanical Engineering.

Part of: Mechanical Eng. · Proves for: UG, Career

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ME 9: Machine Elements

Course 9: 3 units and a build.

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4 milestones

  1. 1Shafts: stress concentration, failure theories and fatigue
  2. 2Gears, belts and bearings
  3. 3Bolted joints, springs and flexures
  4. 4Predict and measure a spring's stiffness

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Free MIT course: lecture notes on shafts, bearings, gears, bolted joints and flexures.

Free lecture videos and notes. NPTEL's proctored exam and certificate are optional and cost money; you never need them here.

Free MIT course: lectures, problem sets and exams on design, mechanisms and machine elements.

Free, open-source finite element solver for stress, heat and vibration (also built into FreeCAD).

Free, open-source parametric CAD, with drawings (TechDraw) and finite elements (FEM, using CalculiX).