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COURSE INFORMATION FOR CURRENT SEMESTER/
TERM

Teaching Schedule
References/Teaching Materials/
Week Lecture/Tutorial/Assignment Topic
Equipment
Deformation of materials Lecture notes, Reference texts
1
State equilibrium conditions and draw free body diagrams.
Relate force, moment couple, to stress.
Stress analysis Lecture notes, Reference texts
2
Describe the transformation of stress
Use Mohr’s circle to calculate the stresses on an oblique plane
Deformation Lecture notes, Reference texts
3 State generalized Hooke’s law
Describe anisotropic behavior
Express strain tensor components
Relate stress and strain
Deformation Lecture notes, Reference texts
4 State constitutive relationship and explain the symmetry of the constitutive
“matrix”
Describe the atomic basis of elasticity
Quantify strains due to thermal expansion
Mechanical Testing Lecture notes, Reference texts
5
Tensile test, stress strain curve
True stress-strain interpretation of tensile test
Behavior prior and post necking
Measures of ductility
6 Mechanical Testing Lecture notes, Reference texts
Ramberg Osgood model
Torsion and hardness test

7 Constitutive Behavior Lecture notes, Reference texts
Generalized Hooke’s law
Brief description of anisotropy
Lecture notes, Reference texts
8 Yielding criteria
Describe plasticity mechanism
Use of yield criteria to predict yielding of various engineering and technological
materials.
Compare Tresca, Von-Mises and other commonly used failure criteria.
Lecture notes, Reference texts
9
Atomistic basis of elasticity

Lecture notes, Reference texts
10 Fracture criteria
Coulomb-Mohr criteria for brittle materials

Deformation of noncrystalline materials Lecture notes, Reference texts
11
Explain the deformation of noncrystalline materials
Compare and contrast the deformation with crystalline materials
Viscoelastic behavior of rubber and viscoelastic models. Lecture notes, Reference texts
12 Describe the time dependent response of rubber to step loading
Explain the time dependent response of rubber to step loading
Define the concept of entropic stiffness
Viscoelastic behavior of rubber and viscoelastic models. Lecture notes, Reference texts
13
Use of model to describe phenomenological behaviour of materials
Apply Voigt and other models to describe viscoelastic materials.
Lecture notes, Reference texts
14
Basic concepts of dislocations

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