MSE 5802

Materials Structure and Mechanical Properties

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

Course is intended for first year graduate students in MSE, or graduate students in other fields, needing a solid foundation in the relationships between structure and mechanical properties in materials for advanced study and research. Microscopic structure of crystalline, molecular, amorphous and ordered non-crystalline solids, including point, line, and planar defects, twinning, and martensitic and pressure induced phase transformations. Mechanical properties of materials including: Use of tensors to describe stress, strain, and elastic constants, time-dependent elastic (anelastic) and plastic (creep) behavior, viscoelasticity, strengthening mechanisms, ductility, and toughness. Macroscopic mechanical properties are described in terms of atom-level mechanisms of elasticity, plasticity, and fracture.

Prerequisites Background equivalent to MATH 2940, PHYS 2214, CHEM 2090.

Enrollment Priority Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Last 1 Terms Offered 2025SP

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