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MMAN3400 Mechanics of Solids 2
Lab Report Guidelines and Marking Criteria
Type Individual assessment
Submission Submit a .pdf file for each lab on Moodle via Turnitin submission boxes
Due Date Report 1: Unsymmetrical Bending and Shear Centre: 11:59 pm Monday, Week 7
Report 2: Thin Cylinder Pressure Vessel: 11:59 pm Monday, Week 8
Weighting 20 % (10 % each report)
Marking Your lab reports will be marked by course staff. The marks will be released within
three weeks after the submission deadline.
Overview
To experimentally confirm the theories and equations learnt in this course, we will perform the following
experiments:
• Lab 1
o Unsymmetrical Bending and Shear Centre (Week 4)
ð Report 1: Unsymmetrical Bending and Shear Centre.
• Lab 2
o Thin Cylinder Pressure Vessel (Week 5)
ð Report 2: Thin Cylinder Pressure Vessel.
During the Lab Session
Before your lab sessions, please read the lab handouts and watch the videos available on Moodle to
familiarise yourself with the experimental equipment and procedure.
The lab sessions are held in Undergraduate Teaching Lab 214 in Willis Annexe J18. You must wear
enclosed shoes to attend this lab.
Be prompt. If you miss the start of your session, you won't be able to join until the next rotation.
Writing Your Report
1. Show the recorded data during your experiment.
2. Answer all questions in the Results and Questions section in the lab handout.
Format:
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• Include a Title Page
o Include the course code, the title of the report, the name and zID of the author, the date
of submission, and the authorship statement.
o Add Authorship statement: By submitting this work, I acknowledge that the intellectual
content of this report is my own, except where the contributions of others are explicitly
described and/or properly cited. I am familiar with my responsibilities under the UNSW
Student Code and understand how UNSW defines plagiarism and academic integrity.
• Your report should include recorded data, results analysis, and discussion, according to the
handouts.
• Page limit: 10 pages, excluding the title page.
• Type your report, including equations. Use 12 pt., black, Times New Roman font for the body
text. Page margins should be at least 25mm. No hand drawings/calculations will be accepted.
• Figures and tables: it is encouraged to format tables, scatter plots, bar graphs, contour plots,
etc., in accordance with common engineering report practices.
o All figures and tables should have a descriptive caption.
o All figures, tables and equations should be referenced within the report.
o A graph must be drawn with coordinate axes where the horizontal axis represents the
independent variable (‘’) and the vertical axis the dependent variable (‘()’ or ‘’).
o The coordinate axes must be given meaningful labels that include the units.
o The axis labels must be chosen in such a way that the data values are easy to read.
o Data points must be clearly marked in the graph, using an appropriate size and marker
style. In cases where there are multiple curves in one graph, assign contrasting colours
or line styles for each curve and include a legend (usually on the right side of the graph).
File Submission
Submit a .pdf file for each lab on Moodle via Turnitin submission boxes.
Standard UNSW Late policy applies:
Work submitted late without an approved extension by the course coordinator or delegated authority is
subject to a late penalty of five percent (5%) of the maximum mark possible for that assessment item,
per calendar day.
The late penalty is applied per calendar day (including weekends and public holidays) that the
assessment is overdue. There is no pro-rata of the late penalty for submissions made part way through
a day. This is for all assessments where a penalty applies.
Work submitted after five days (120 hours) will not be accepted and a mark of zero will be awarded for
that assessment item.

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Marking Criteria
Communication (30 Marks)
Criteria:
• Quality of English expression.
• Use of concise and unambiguous language.
• Correct presentation of data.
• High Quality formatting.
Rubric:
• Inadequate (6 Marks):
o Does not meet the standard expected of a 3rd year Engineering student.
• Adequate (12 Marks):
o Meets standard but deficient in key areas:
§ Marginal quality English or poor formatting.
§ Ambiguous or padded language.
§ Incorrect presentation of data.
• Good (18 Marks):
o Proficient formatting and data presentation with minor technical or grammatical errors.
• Excellent (24 Marks):
o Seamless formatting with almost no errors.
o High quality English expression.
o Excellent data presentation:
§ Appropriate format for each data type.
§ Important information in easily accessible in each table/graph/figure/etc.
• Outstanding (30 Marks):
o As per "Excellent" but with an outstanding example of data presentation, i.e. one which
provides some deep insight into the connection between the lab data and theoretical
calculations.
Analysis (40 Marks)
Criteria:
• Accuracy of calculations.
• Correct use of assumptions.
• Careful treatment of numerical precision.
• Robustness and flexibility of calculation tools.
Rubric:
• Inadequate (8 Marks):
o Does not meet expected standard for analysis. Gross miscalculations or incorrectly
applied concepts.
• Adequate (16 Marks):
o Generally correct conceptually but deficient in key areas, such as poor use of
assumptions.
o Incorrect application of theory in some places.
• Good (24 Marks):
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o Proficient calculations.
o Generally correct application of analysis methods with some local errors (i.e. poor use of
numerical precision).
• Excellent (32 Marks):
o A near faultless analysis. Correct application of assumptions and theoretical
calculations.
o Falls short of "outstanding" because the analysis is limited to the local problem at hand
and cannot be extrapolated to similar problems.
• Outstanding (40 Marks):
o Demonstration of analysis capability which extrapolates beyond the specific lab example
into a "class" of similar problems.
o Analysis methods which can account for uncertainty of measured data and handle error
appropriately.
Insight (30 Marks)
Criteria:
• Quality of discussion and conclusions.
• Demonstration of deeper insights gained from the analysis.
Rubric:
• Inadequate (6 Marks):
o No deeper insight demonstrated.
• Adequate (12 Marks)
o Conclusions and discussion are shallow and essentially re-state body of the report.
• Good (18 Marks):
o Reflection on key report findings.
o Identification of error sources with justification.
o Isolated discussion of different lab tasks with a conceptual integration.
• Excellent (24 Marks)
o An insightful discussion which links the components of the laboratory report together and
demonstrates a deep understanding of the analysis and theory.
• Outstanding (30 Marks)
o Demonstrated insight which links that lab exercise to broader concepts in the course
and/or mechanical analysis more generally.


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Plagiarism and Academic Misconduct

Examples of plagiarism
Copying
Using the same or very similar words to the original text or idea without acknowledging
the source or using quotation marks. This includes copying materials, ideas or concepts
from a book, article, report or other written document, presentation, composition,
artwork, design, drawing, circuitry, computer program or software, website, internet,
other electronic resource, or another person's assignment without appropriate
acknowledgement.
Inappropriate
paraphrasing
Changing a few words and phrases while mostly retaining the original structure and/or
progression of ideas of the original, and information without acknowledgement.
This also applies in presentations where someone paraphrases another’s ideas or words
without credit and to piecing together quotes and paraphrases into a new whole,
without appropriate referencing.
Collusion
Presenting work as independent work when it has been produced in whole or part in
collusion with other people. Collusion includes:
• students providing their work to another student before the due date, or for
the purpose of them plagiarising at any time
• paying another person to perform an academic task and passing it off as your
own
• stealing or acquiring another person’s academic work and copying it
• offering to complete another person’s work or seeking payment for
completing academic work.
This should not be confused with academic collaboration where there has been general
group discussion about a project or question but where each student writes his/her own
answer.
Inappropriate
citation
Citing sources which have not been read without acknowledging the 'secondary' source
from which knowledge of them has been obtained.
Self-plagiarism
‘Self-plagiarism’ occurs where an author republishes their own previously written work
and presents it as new findings without referencing the earlier work, either in its
entirety or partially.
Self-plagiarism is also referred to as 'recycling', 'duplication', or 'multiple submissions of
research findings' without disclosure. In the student context, self-plagiarism includes re-
using parts of, or all of, a body of work that has already been submitted for assessment
without proper citation.


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Student Misconduct Procedure
All student misconduct, including academic misconduct, will be referred to the Ethics Officer in the
school and/or the Conduct & Integrity Office. Possible outcomes include but not limited to:
• No formal action
• Apology
• Formal warning
• Formal reprimand
• Educative interview
• Remedial educative action
• Reduction in marks as prescribed by university policy or procedure
• Capped mark pass (50%) for the work or the course
• Resubmission of work without further penalty
• Resubmission or corrected work with a capped mark
• 0% for the assessment
• Other reduction in mark
• Restitution of damages
• Fail for the course (00FL)
• Suspension from the university
• Delayed graduation
• Permanent exclusion
• Revocation of an award (e.g. certificate, diploma, degree, prize, scholarship).
More information
Plagiarism Policy:
https://www.gs.unsw.edu.au/policy/documents/plagiarismpolicy.pdf
Student Misconduct Procedure:
https://www.gs.unsw.edu.au/policy/documents/studentmisconductprocedures.pdf



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