KB7059 - Advanced Stress and Structural Analysis

Active learning sessions will allow you to engage with and appraise new material and assist you in exploring and critiquing key concepts and topics within the module. Sessions will involve a combination of content delivery and practical learning exercises to enable you to apply your learning to complex and authentic engineering problems. A problem-solving focused curriculum will allow you to explore and analyse solutions to complex challenges where wide-ranging and conflicting constraints require innovative discovery and enterprise. Learning activities will enable students to work collaboratively and practice and reflect upon the effectiveness of teamwork and communication skills, and the facilitation of creative thinking approaches to solve open-ended engineering problems. 

During your active learning sessions, academic support will be available to facilitate your exploration of the problem-solving activities. Formative feedback will be provided by the module team, including answering student queries and providing guidance concerning the module such as assessments and your academic progress. The electronic learning platform (eLP) provides a comprehensive resource for integrated learning incorporating learning materials and reading lists that will facilitate directed and self-directed learning. Contact with academic tutors and your peers outside formal teaching hours is encouraged through assigned ‘office hours’, discussion boards and messaging systems within the eLP. Professional support staff, such as Ask4Help, provide the first point of contact for a range of queries, including, for example, those concerning assessment submission, late submission/extensions, and other administrative issues.

All modules at Northumbria include a range of reading materials that students are expected to engage with. Online reading lists (provided after enrolment) give you access to your reading material for your modules. The Library works in partnership with your module tutors to ensure you have access to the material that you need.

Knowledge & Understanding:

MLO1. Select and apply knowledge of mathematics, statistics, natural science and engineering principles to the solution of complex structural problems. Some of the knowledge will be at the forefront of the mechanics of materials subject.

Intellectual / Professional skills & abilities:

MLO2. Select and apply appropriate computational and analytical techniques to model complex problems involving material non-linearity and failure, recognising the limitations of the techniques employed.

MLO3. Appraise the use of practical laboratory and workshop skills to investigate complex problems involving material non-linearity and failure.

Personal Values Attributes (Global / Cultural awareness, Ethics, Curiosity) (PVA):

MLO4. Apply creativity and curiosity to analyse complex structural problems to reach substantiated conclusions using first principles of mathematics, statistics, natural science and engineering principles.

MLO5. Evaluate the environmental and societal impact of solutions to complex problems involving structural design and failure and minimise adverse impacts.

Formative Assessment

Academic staff on the module will assess you in a formative manner to help build your confidence and highlight any misunderstandings you may have of the theoretical and professional concepts presented in the module. Your formative feedback will be given to you either verbally by academic staff on the module during formally scheduled teaching sessions or using the eLP. Your formative feedback aims to help you learn and prepare for the submission of your summative assessment.

Summative Assessment

Academic staff on the module will assess you in a summative manner by two pieces of assessment:

Component 1 to assess your knowledge and understanding through the application of laboratory skills and computational and analytical techniques to model complex structural problems, including material non-linearity and failure (MLOs 1-3) through completing an industry compatible written submission.

Component 2, will evaluate your ability to apply creativity and curiosity to solve complex problems in stress and structural analysis reaching substantiated conclusions (MLO 4 & 5) in an industry compatible written submission.

Feedback will be provided electronically through the eLP or student email within 20 working days of the date of submission.

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Advanced stress and structural analysis will enhance and evolve your understanding of and develop specialist knowledge in the design and analysis of continuous mechanical and structural systems. You will investigate the advanced mechanics of material non-linearity and failure, how to design structures and components to avoid failure and the environmental and societal impact of structural design and failure. In the module, you will be encouraged to conduct research and undertake critical thinking through the application of appropriate knowledge and methodologies to tackle complex problems. Active learning sessions will allow you to engage with and appraise new material and assist you in exploring and critiquing key concepts and topics within the module. Sessions will involve practical learning exercises to enable you to apply your learning to complex and authentic engineering problems. The module utilises the electronic learning platform (eLP) to provide a comprehensive resource for integrated learning incorporating learning materials and reading lists that will facilitate directed and self-directed learning.