QCE Engineering Units 3&4 Notes

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1. Mapping civil engineering: coastal, structural, transport, water and environmental sub-disciplines3 · Unit 3 Topic 1 — Civil structures in society

   Civil engineering sub-disciplines and career scope

2. Smart structures, composites and prefabrication: engineering for environmental extremes3 · Unit 3 Topic 1 — Civil structures in society

   Innovation and sustainability in civil structures

3. Corrosion mechanisms, protection methods and the life cycle impact of building materials3 · Unit 3 Topic 1 — Civil structures in society

   Corrosion and material life cycle

4. Beam reactions at pin and roller supports under vertical, horizontal and angled loading3 · Unit 3 Topic 2 — Civil structures and forces

   Beam reactions and supports

5. Method of joints: solving truss member forces and naming tension or compression3 · Unit 3 Topic 2 — Civil structures and forces

   Truss analysis — method of joints

6. Method of sections and graphical truss analysis for fast member force solutions3 · Unit 3 Topic 2 — Civil structures and forces

   Truss analysis — method of sections

7. Shear force and bending moment diagrams for vertical point loads3 · Unit 3 Topic 2 — Civil structures and forces

   Shear force and bending moment

8. Stress, strain and Young's modulus: the three calculations that drive every Unit 3 materials question3 · Unit 3 Topic 3 — Civil engineering materials

   Stress, strain and Young's modulus

9. Reading stress-strain diagrams: timber versus low-carbon steel3 · Unit 3 Topic 3 — Civil engineering materials

   Stress-strain diagrams

10. Concrete composition, reinforcement, pre-/post-tensioning and factor of safety3 · Unit 3 Topic 3 — Civil engineering materials

    Concrete, laminates and factor of safety

11. Mechanical, mechatronic and biomechanical engineers: expertise applied to community problems4 · Unit 4 Topic 1 — Machines in society

    Engineering careers and community problems

12. Mechanical advantage and velocity ratio: levers, inclined planes, screws and pulleys4 · Unit 4 Topic 2 — Machines, mechanisms and control

    Mechanical advantage and velocity ratio

13. Gear ratios, worm drives, rack and pinion, and belt drive velocity ratios4 · Unit 4 Topic 2 — Machines, mechanisms and control

    Gears and belt drives

14. Work, power, kinetic and potential energy, and the efficiency formula eta = MA/VR4 · Unit 4 Topic 2 — Machines, mechanisms and control

    Work, power and energy efficiency

15. The three equations of uniformly accelerated motion and how to choose between them4 · Unit 4 Topic 2 — Machines, mechanisms and control

    Uniformly accelerated motion

16. Static and kinetic friction, angle of repose and one-body systems on an inclined plane4 · Unit 4 Topic 2 — Machines, mechanisms and control

    Friction and inclined planes

17. Logic gates, truth tables and constructing control circuits for real machines4 · Unit 4 Topic 2 — Machines, mechanisms and control

    Logic gates, truth tables and circuits

18. The lead-tin phase diagram and the inverse lever rule4 · Unit 4 Topic 3 — Materials

    Lead-tin phase diagram and the lever rule

19. Ferrite, pearlite, austenite and cementite: reading the iron-carbon diagram4 · Unit 4 Topic 3 — Materials

    Iron-carbon diagram and steel microstructures

20. Heat treatment of plain-carbon steels and the properties of ABS, PC and PA64 · Unit 4 Topic 3 — Materials

    Heat treatment and engineering plastics