Rheology and Fracture

3 credits · College of Engineering catalogue

Advisory Prerequisite: MECHENG 382. Enforced Prerequisite: None. (3 credits) Mechanisms of deformation, cohesion, and fracture of matter. Unified approach to the atomic-scale origins of plastic, viscous, viscoelastic, elastic, and anelastic behavior. The influences of time and temperature on behavior. Stress field of edge and screw dislocations, dislocation interactions, and cross slip.