Fundamentals of Defects in Materials and Applications of Atomistic Modeling

3 credits · College of Engineering catalogue

Advisory Prerequisite: MECHENG 235 and MECHENG 382. Enforced Prerequisite: None. (3 credits) Introduction of the correlation between various types of microstructural defects and materials’ macroscopic phenomena, such as diffusion, deformation, radiation response, phase transformation, etc. Fundamentals of atomistic modeling and demo applications are also introduced to help students build better intuition about defects’ structures and behaviors.