Valid for: 2016/17
Decided by: Education Board E
Date of Decision: 2016-04-04
Main field: Technology.
Compulsory for: M2, MD2
Language of instruction: The course will be given in Swedish
A major part of the final properties and cost of a product is decided through the choice of manufacturing methods, and how the chosen methods are designed and controlled. The main purpose with the course is to give the student a broad understanding of existing manufacturing processes, in order to be able to control the critical product attributes; cost, function and properties.
Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must
Competences and skills
For a passing grade the student must
The course comprises the following groups of manufacturing methods and processes: Mechanical behaviour of materials and deformation models; metal-casting materials and equipment; forming and shaping processes and equipment including rolling, forging, extrusion, drawing, sheet-metal forming, forming and shaping of plastics; machining processes and machine tools including fundamentals, cutting tools and cutting tool materials, turning, drilling, milling, broaching, sawing, abrasive machining and finishing operations, advanced machining operations including EDM, AWJC, LBM, EBM; joining processes and equipment including fusion-welding processes and solid-state welding processes.
Grading scale: TH
Assessment: Written examination, written assignments and compulsory experimental exercises.
Required prior knowledge: FMEA01/FMEA30 Engineering Mechanics, FHL013 Solid Mechanics, Basic Course/FHLA01 Solid Mechanics, Basic Course and FKM015 Materials Engineering, Basic Course/FKMA01 Materials.
The number of participants is limited to: No
The course overlaps following course/s: MMTA05
Course coordinator: Professor Jan-Eric Ståhl, jan-eric.stahl@iprod.lth.se
Course homepage: http://www.iprod.lth.se