Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA)
A process done by design engineers to ensure that products perform their intended functions and satisfy user needs. DFMEA evaluates the overall design of product systems and components to determine potential failure modes and causes.
DFMEA?
What are failure modes in mechanical design and how do we define them ?
What are root causes & mechanisms?
What is Severity, Occurence and Detection of Failure ?
Grading of Severity , Occurrence and Detection ratings
What is Boundary or B diagram ?
What is Parameter Diagram or P diagram ?
Role of material selection in Design process
The importance of materials
Types of materials
The Mechanical properties
Modulus
Ductility and brittleness
Strength
Hardness
Resilience and Toughness
Fracture toughness
Fatigue strength
Wear
Creep
Internal damping - loss coefficient
Thermal properties - Conductivity, Thermal expansion and heat capacity
Introduction to peculiar nature of various base materials and composites
Material charts
Material selection process
Material indices
Derivation of indices for various loading application
Applying indices on the Ashby charts for material selection
Theories of failure and Design for fatigue
Basics of Principal stress from mechanics of materials
Importance of principal stress
What are Theories of failure? the most simplest form
Maximum Shear stress Theory - How it is derived , the analysis and cases
Maximum distortion Energy theory - the most widely used theory of failure for ductile materials
The derivation from concept of strain energy
Definition of Von mises stress
Mohr theory - Theory for materials with different tensile and compressive strengths
Coulomb- Mohr theory
Brittle Failure theory
Selection of Failure theory
What is Fatigue loading? fatigue failure?
Fracture mechanics basics
What is fracture toughness property
Factors to be considered
The S-N curve and RR Moore test to develop S-N curve
Endurance strength and Endurance limit
The Endurance limit modifying factors
Surface, Size, temperature, loading
Stress concentration factor
Characterization of cyclical loading
Definition of failure criteria in Fatigue
Classification of Airplanes
Aerodynamics
JET Engines
Flight Mechanics
Space Environment
Orbital Mechanics
Space Propulsion
Communications
Attitude Control
Power Systems
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