Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Part 1
Linear Elastic Behavior
All around us, engineers are creating materials whose properties are exactly tailored to their purpose. This course is the first of three in a series of mechanics courses from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. Taken together, these courses provide similar content to the MIT subject 3.032: Mechanical Behavior of Materials.
The 3.032x series provides an introduction to the mechanical behavior of materials, from both the continuum and atomistic points of view. At the continuum level, we learn how forces and displacements translate into stress and strain distributions within the material. At the atomistic level, we learn the mechanisms that control the mechanical properties of materials. Examples are drawn from metals, ceramics, glasses, polymers, biomaterials, composites and cellular materials.
Part 1 covers stress-strain behavior, topics in linear elasticity and the atomic basis for linear elasticity, and composite materials.
Part 2 covers stress transformations, beam bending, column buckling, and cellular materials.
Part 3 covers viscoelasticity (behavior intermediate to that of an elastic solid and that of a viscous fluid), plasticity (permanent deformation), creep in crystalline materials (time dependent behavior), brittle fracture (rapid crack propagation) and fatigue (failure due to repeated loading of a material).
What you'll learn
- Classical mechanics (or statics)
- Chemistry at the first-year university level
- Differential equations
- The behavior of linear elastic materials
- The atomic basis for linear elasticity
- How to solve mechanics problems relating to stress, strain, and strain energy
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much low completion rate
This is the first module of a full course that was once presented as a single MOOC, that probably experienced too much low completion rate (I had to remove it out of my program once too, due to an underestimation of the time effort it would require).
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problem sets were engaging
The problem sets were engaging and helped the material properly.
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The professor does a great job of explaining the concepts of Strength of Materials with real life examples.
engaging and helped
very well structured
The lectures were very well structured.
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Being able to follow every detail of the presented content can be challenging, dividing it into three modules makes it more doable, but you really need to complete all three modules to get a complete view of the subject.
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Professor Gibson is an excellent professor.
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