TAM 555

Fall 2006 All Classes

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Fracture Mechanics

Credit: 4 hours.

Unified analytical treatment of modern fracture problems: macroscopic theories used to determine the static strength of bodies containing cracks; Griffith criterion, linear-elastic fracture mechanics, elastic-plastic fracture mechanics models; small-scale yielding results and their implications; general yielding; interfacial fracture; fracture control; micromechanisms of fracture.

Prerequisite: TAM 424 or MSE 440; TAM 541; TAM 552.

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TAM 555 class schedule data for fall 2006
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	46525	Lecture-Discussion	C	10:00AM -11:50AM	TR	Talbot Laboratory	Sofronis, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/23/06-12/08/06 Section Info: Proposed course outline: Review of principles, key results and relative advantages of rational continuum mechanics, thermomechanics with internal variables, and rational extended thermomechanics. Intoduction to non-classical and/or coupled field theories: classical versus generalized thermoelasticity, quasi-continuum, lattice/particle-based theories, Cosserat-type models of solids and fluids, strain-gradient and non-local models, magnetoelasticity, piezoelectricity, thermodiffusion. Singular surface and waves.