2013-2014 Graduate Catalog Downloadable PDF (10.71MB)

506 Course Descriptions/Mechanics and Materials612. Wave Propagation in Isotropic and Anisotropic Solids. (3-0). Credit 3. Mathematical and experimentalmethods of studying stress waves with emphasis on anisotropic solids, e.g., fiber-reinforcedcomposite materials; waves in an unbounded medium, in a half-space, in rods; waves in a general anisotropicmedium; wave surface, slowness surface, velocity surface, energy velocity and group velocity.Prerequisite: MEMA 601 or AERO 603. Cross-listed with AERO 612.613. Principles of Composite Materials. (3-0). Credit 3. Classification and characteristics of compositematerials; micromechanical and macromechanical behavior of composite laminae; macromechanicalbehavior of laminates using classical laminate theory; interlaminar stresses and failure modes; structuraldesign concepts, testing and manufacturing techniques. Prerequisite: MEMA 601 or MEMA 602.614. Physical Phenomena in Materials. (3-0). Credit 3. Physical principles governing behavior in materials;emphasis on crystalline materials, particularly in metals; includes crystal structures, vacancies, soliddiagrams, diffusion and transformations. Prerequisite: MEEN 340 or equivalent.616. Damage and Failure in Composite Materials. (3-0). Credit 3. Mechanisms and models related todamage and failure in composite materials subjected to mechanical loads. Prerequisite: Courses in compositematerials, elasticity. Cross-listed with AERO 616.625. Micromechanics. (3-0). Credit 3. Eigenstrains; inclusions, and inhomogeneities; Eshelby’s solutionfor an ellipsoidal inclusion; Eshelby’s equivalent inclusion method. Effective elastic properties ofcomposites; composite spheres and cylinders models; bounds on effective moduli; Hashin-Shtrikmanbounds; applications to fiber, whisker and particulate reinforced composites; introduction to micromechanicsof inelastic composites and solids with damage. Prerequisite: MEMA 601 or MEMA 602.Cross-listed with AERO 617.626. Mechanics of Active Materials. (3-0). Credit 3. Introduction to coupled field theories: constitutiveresponse of materials with thermal and electromagnetic coupling; microstructural changes due to phasetransformations; shape memory alloys; piezoelectric and magnetostrictive materials; active polymersand solutions. Micromechanics of active composites. Prerequisite: MEMA 601 or MEMA 602. Crosslistedwith AERO 618.633. Theory of Plates and Shells. (3-0). Credit 3. Theoretical formulations of thin and thick plates (classicaland shear deformation theories); analytical solutions of plates and various shapes and support conditions,bending, vibration and stability of plates; numerical solutions using the energy methods and thefinite element method; theory and analysis of cylindrical shells. Prerequisite: MEMA 601, 602 or 605.634. Damage Mechanics of Solids and Structures. (3-0). Credit 3. Damage mechanics; constitutivemodeling of damage behavior of materials; application of thermodynamic laws; computational techniquesfor predicting progressive damage and failure; plasticity; viscoplasticity; viscoelasticity; cohesivezone modeling; fatigue and creep damage; damage in various brittle and ductile materials (e.g., metal,concrete, polymer, ceramic, asphalt, biomaterial, composites). Prerequisite: CVEN 633 or approval ofinstructor. Cross-listed with CVEN 753.635. Structural Analysis of Composites. (3-0). Credit 3. Formulation and analysis structural response oflaminated composite components; bending, vibration and stability of laminated composite plates; interlaminarstresses, effect of shear deformation on structural response; numerical modeling of laminatedplates. Prerequisite: MEMA 613.641. Plasticity Theory. (3-0). Credit 3. Theory of plastic yield and flow of two and three-dimensional bodies;classical plasticity theories, unified viscoplastic theories, numerical considerations; applications andcomparisons of theory to experiment. Prerequisite: MEMA 601 or MEMA 602.646. Introduction to the Finite Element Method. (3-0). Credit 3. Weak or variational formulation of differentialequations governing one- and two-dimensional problems of engineering; finite element modeldevelopment and analysis of standard problems of solid mechanics (bars, beams and plane elasticity),heat transfer and fluid mechanics; time-dependent problems; computer implementation and use of simplefinite element codes in solving engineering problems. Prerequisite: Senior or graduate classification.647. Theory of Finite Element Analysis. (3-0). Credit 3. Finite elements models of a continuum; virtualwork principle; plane stress and plane strain finite element models; bending of plates; axisymmetricproblems; three-dimensional stress analysis; isoparametric formulations; finite element computer programsto solve typical structural problems. Prerequisite: Graduate classification or approval of instructor.