DEFORMATION OF SOLIDS

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: M S & E 352 or graduate/professional standing Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply elementary mechanics and tensor analysis (including Mohr's Circle) to solve problems involving force, displacement, stress, strain, and Hooke's law Audience: Undergraduate 2. Apply theories of plasticity and viscoelasticity to solve engineering problems in uniform stress/strain Audience: Undergraduate 3. Predict the mechanical response of a material (including deformation, failure, and microscopic mechanisms) under an arbitrary state of uniform stress or in the presence of stress concentrations and cracks, and across a wide range of temperatures and time-scale Audience: Undergraduate 4. Choose materials and microstructures to optimize performance for engineering applications Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply elementary mechanics and tensor analysis (including Mohr's Circle) to solve problems involving force, displacement, stress, strain, and Hooke's law Audience: Undergraduate 2. Apply theories of plasticity and viscoelasticity to solve engineering problems in uniform stress/strain Audience: Undergraduate 3. Predict the mechanical response of a material (including deformation, failure, and microscopic mechanisms) under an arbitrary state of uniform stress or in the presence of stress concentrations and cracks, and across a wide range of temperatures and time-scale Audience: Undergraduate 4. Choose materials and microstructures to optimize performance for engineering applications Audience: Undergraduate