49325 CAMD: Computer-Aided Mechanical Design Project (2024 AUT Semester) Group: Students are encouraged to build their own groups normally up to 5, but it depends. You may also complete a project individually. Each group should have only ONE group leader responsible for organizing group meetings and the final submission of the project, and the marks will be automatically populated to all the group members upon the completion of the marking process. We do encourage each group member to take initiative and actively contribute to the Project. Then, all the group members will normally have equal marks, unless there is any specific situation to be noted by the group leader. Due date: Project Report is due by Submit your final group project report (including names and student IDs of all the group members in the "Subject" title of your report), via UTS Canvas submission system. Note: Submit your final group project report by the due date. Any late submissions may be accepted with the consideration of a reasonable penalty. Topic: FE Analysis and/or Design Optimization of Mechanical Structural systems Generally, any engineering applications, or numerical examples provided that the FEM and/or Design Optimization (structural size, shape and/or topology optimization) techniques are involved are acceptable. Hence you may freely choose and devise your own design problem for your group project, related to this topic in a general sense (e.g. numerical examples or practice-based engineering design problems). You can freely select any software you are good at, such as ANSYS, Solidworks, PTC Creo, CATIA and Matlab. Note that the problem you choose should be basically able to reflect the knowledge and skills you have gained from the practices of our assignments, lecture notes and lab tutorials of this Subject. Requirements: You may apply Finite Element Method and/or Optimization techniques to any structural mechanical components as a numerical or a practice-based design problem of your own choice, with appropriate geometric dimensions, loads and constraints, as well as simulation and optimization parameters. This Project should take a typical group up to 35 hours to complete. It is noted that this project can either be completed using Matlab to develop your own codes, or any commercial software tools like ANSYS, Solidworks, Catia or PTS Creo for any real-world engineering problems. Upon the completion, submit one final project report per group, which contributes 30 marks. The report must contain a statement detailing the contributions of all individual group members, signed by all members of the group. Each group should have a group leader for the submission of your final report, and the group leader will confirm the contribution of each group member. Basically, your report should include (but not limited to) the following aspects: (1) Problem description and statement (2) Finite element procedures and analysis details, including CAD model (3) Design optimization (design variables; objective function; constraints), and details (4) Matlab codes with detailed explanations, if you use Matlab (5) Results and discussions, as well as conclusions Note: We would carefully investigate the overall quality of the project, and the final marks depend on the nature and complexity of your mechanical analysis and design problem.