PHYS 4100 Materials

Elasticity, stress, strain, plasticity, waves, and fractures in solids, liquids, gases and crystals.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

PHYS 2110 and PHYS 2120

Typically Offered

Demorest Campus: as needed.

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon the completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the following outcome-based learning skills:

1. Know how Hooke’s law applies to material deformations and extended to viscoelastic, plastic, and composite materials models.
2. Apply concepts involving buckling, pressure vessels, shear and torsion to solve problems.
3. Apply stress and strain tensors to derive Mohr’s circle and solve more complicated composite structure problems.
4. Understand free body diagrams, distributed loads, and the successive integration method of solving problems of cantilevered beams and plates.