All Lessons

In this tutorial, students will learn the steps required to calculate the forces experienced in a truss structure, and be able to apply this knowledge to a range of truss structures.

In this tutorial, students will attempt to draw a free body diagram of an object that is shown in an image provided. They provide their answer by dragging forces located on the top right corner of the plotting area into force points located on the body.

In this tutorial, students will be assuming the role of a service engineer representing a tow truck company. It is their responsibility to certify if it is safe to proceed with any operations.

In order to determine if it is safe to proceed, they will be required to apply the concepts learned in the classroom, such as the forces in equilibrium, moments and friction, to the given situation.

Students are placed in the shoes of an engineer working for a Bridge Inspection Company and it is their first day on the job. Their first task is to inspect a suspension bridge that is made up of 3 sections. The task will include simple Engineering Mechanics calculations that include reactions, shear, bending moment and loads. They begin by inspecting a Pin-Jointed Cantilever Beam fixed at one end and supported by a cable at the other. It is their job to test the cable supporting it to see if it will fail when a car drives across the bridge.

In a car crash, the vehicles' mass, size and velocity are the key factors to estimate the damages to the vehicles and the driver. This Adaptive Tutorial covers the principle of impulse and momentum using crash scenario simulation of a range of vehicles.

In this tutorial, students will be given a situation in which they have to apply the concept of projectile motion learnt in classes.

One of the general approaches to solving kinetics problems in engineering is to use the work and energy principle. In this Adaptive Tutorial, the basics of work and energy, and the energy law of conservation are explained by using a simple toy cart simulation.

This lesson will investigate the design of stiffened panels which are prone to structural instability (buckling). Student's choices will be based on the requirements of the panel, the critical buckling loads and the costs associated with their design.

In this tutorial, students have been asked to design a column member that makes up part of a garage. To do this, they will need to follow the design constraints of the AS4100.

This tutorial will take you through the process and considerations used in the design of two common mechanical components, shafts and flywheels. The first part will refresh your memory on the engineering design process and its steps, in order to set the scene. The second and third tasks will involve you going through the steps to design an appropriate shaft and flywheel for a group project, finally you will iterate your design based on additions made.

First-year Architecture Adaptive Tutorial covering the topics of aesthetics and functionality in design.

In this tutorial students will be designing the longitudinal structure of a barge.

A barge is a flat-bottomed vessel used to transport heavy goods.

A long and slender barge can be treated as a beam with a constant cross section with external forces acting on it. These forces will include; cargo loads, weight of the barge and the buoyancy force.

This is a teamwork tutorial that will test your ability to design a cantilevered staircase.

Specific areas of Engineering knowledge required:

• Preliminary Design
• Shear Force & Bending Moments
• Normal Stress
• Shear Stress
• Principal Stress
• Failure Analysis
• Redesign

In this adaptive tutorial, students will be guided through the steps required to draw the Shear Force Diagram (SFD) and Bending Moment Diagram (BMD).

They will then be able to determine the Maximum Shear Force and Bending Maximum Moment from the diagrams as well as the Zero Shear Location and Point of Contra-flexure.

The Mohr's Circle aids in the visualisation of the stresses on various planes through a point in a stressed body, and can be is used to determine stresses acting on any plane passing through a point. In this Adaptive Tutorial, the user will be able to accurately plot a 2D Mohr's circle by using a graphing tool.

Based on the 2D Mohr's Circle fundamentals, this Adaptive Tutorial takes the user further into the 3D Mohr's Circle construction. This would allow to distinguish the three principal stresses and absolute maximum shear stress graphically.

The effect of torque is of primary concern in the design of drive shafts or axles in machinery. The objective of this Adaptive Tutorial is to work through the aspects of internal torque, torsional shear stress and the angle of twist along the drive shafts or axles.

In this tutorial, students will learn about the design loop from a solid mechanics perspective. They will go through a simple design exercise to understand this design loop. However this design loop applies to many real life applications.

This tutorial teaches students how to determine the appropriate weld thickness of a certain weld. They will learn everything you need to do the following:

1) Choose appropriate cross sections

2) Choose appropriate weld types

3) Calculate the corresponding weld thickness