Undergraduate Courses
This course covers basic mechanics of materials. It covers stress strain behavior of materials under external and tensile stresses, twist, and bending.
In this lecture, the generation and annihilation processes and properties of point defects, dislocations and planar defects in materials with different crystal structures will be examined. The effects of these defects on physical and mechanical properties of materials will also be discussed.
Course material will cover various topics in mechanics of materials such as tensor analysis, constitutive relations, two-dimensional linear elasticity and fracture and fatigue. Optionally, it would cover material plasticity, brittle and ductile failure, and introduction to numerical analysis.
This course introduces atomic bonding, the dislocation theory and the fracture mechanics in order to understand material behavior under mechanical loading.
The objective of this course is to understand the thin film deposition process. The course will introduce various vacuum equipments and deposition methods and examine the deposition theory and characterization methods of thin film. In particular, the mechanical behavior of multilayered structure will be discussed.
The purpose of this class is to study the basic concepts of atomic structures, crystal structures, phase equilibrium, and processes and apply these to understand the structures and properties of various materials. In addition, the students will carry out a team project on the design problems on each material.
Graduate Courses
This course deals with the microscopic analysis of mechanics.
It covers the basis of continuum mechanics and anisotropy in metal as well as inhomogeneous problems. The course also addresses the Eshelby’s approach based on linear elasticity.
This course introduces analytical and experimental techniques for material failure by crack initiation and growth. Topics include fracture mechanics of brittle and ductile materials, asymptotic stress field in elastic and elastic-plastic materials, fracture criteria, fracture by cleavage, void growth, cohesive zone models, crack deflection, time-dependent fracture, dynamic fracture, and fatigue crack growth and life prediction.
The primary objective of this course is to learn the basic principles and applications of various computational methods to study and predict material properties. This class will focus on the deformation and failure of metals.