IMPERFECTIONS AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2024 Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply mechanics and tensor analysis to solve problems in non-uniform strain related to stress-defect and defect-defect interactions Audience: Graduate 2. Apply theories of plasticity and viscoelasticity to solve 3 dimensional problems in stress and strain Audience: Graduate 3. Construct models of the strength of materials based on underlying microscopic mechanisms Audience: Graduate 4. Construct maps of mechanical response (deformation, failure, and microscopic mechanisms) under arbitrary state of stress and in the presence of stress concentrations, cracks, and across a wide range of temperatures, time-scale, and length-scale Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply mechanics and tensor analysis to solve problems in non-uniform strain related to stress-defect and defect-defect interactions Audience: Graduate 2. Apply theories of plasticity and viscoelasticity to solve 3 dimensional problems in stress and strain Audience: Graduate 3. Construct models of the strength of materials based on underlying microscopic mechanisms Audience: Graduate 4. Construct maps of mechanical response (deformation, failure, and microscopic mechanisms) under arbitrary state of stress and in the presence of stress concentrations, cracks, and across a wide range of temperatures, time-scale, and length-scale Audience: Graduate