Mechanical

Mechanical design of parts and machines can be one of the most challenging aspects of apparatus design. Over designing results in wasted material and increased cost, under designing can result in dangerous failures that ruin your experiment and could cause serious harm. In this section we will learn the basic principles of sound mechanical design, how to draw your designs so that a machine shop can understand them, how modern 3D design work is done.

Contents:

• Screws/Bolts
• Threads
• Rivets
• Pins
• Retaining Rings
• Design for 3D Printing
• Thin Walled Pressure Vessels
• Thick Walled Pressure Vessels
• Bending Forces