SEGi UNIVERSITY

BACHELOR SCIENCE (HONS) OF ARCHITECTURE

ARC31103 – Structure I
PROJECT ASSIGNMENT ( 30%)

Date:27 OCTOBER 2021 Time:

Instructions to Candidates:

A hard copy formal report should be submitted on

or before 1ST DECEMBER 2021. Your work should
be submitted via TEAM and in pdf format.

You will receive no marks for the work that is not

your own. Your work may be subject to checks for
originality.

Assessment Criteria:
Students will be mark individually according to the marking criteria below:

Define the principles of forces and structure 40%

Identify different loading system 20%
Apply the fundamental mechanical theories to
determine equilibrium forces and moments 20%
Conduct simple analysis on the forces and stress
in structural element 20%
TOTAL 100%

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Subject Name ARC 31103 Structure I

Assignment Product Dissection

In this assignment, you are required to choose a relatively simple and

relatively affordable consumer product that need manual effort to operate(e.g.
spanner, stapler, fishing reels, etc) or toy that you are interested in which you
will isolate the subcomponents of the product and discover forces or/moments
that act on these subcomponents.

You are required to carry out research beyond lecture notes and textbooks to
find the needed information for your assignment. For e.g. weight of the
material of your product, other material properties, types and functions of
machine elements which are found in your product etc.

You are required the following tasks:

1. Within one week you should decide on the product and find your
lecturer during office hours or after class to get your product
approved.
2. Take apart the product (if possible) and identify two possible
locations or situations where failure would most likely to occur.
3. Draw the free-body diagrams for these two cases and
predict/estimate the applied loads. Show all forces and where they
act. List all assumptions that are made.
4. From these loads, solve for the reaction forces and/or moments.
Solve for any unknowns based on your free-body diagram.
5. Take each individual piece (the subcomponents) from the two
cases above and carry out the following:
a. Draw the free-body diagram for each piece.
b. Using equilibrium i.e. force and moment equilibrium must be
satisfied for each component, determine the internal forces and
moments i.e. forces or/and moments transmitted between the
different individual pieces.
6. Write a final report no more than 10 pages which consist of the
following:
a. A description of the product and how it function
b. Show the tasks 2) to 5) above
c. Drawings or pictures of your actual product
A discussion/conclusion section about the product. Was it designed well?
State what you think is interesting or clever parts of the design. How could
the design be improved? What simplifying assumptions which you make in the
analysis above that may account for possible wrong answers. How can the
components be designed to avoid overloading to avoid failure?

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