|  Home  |  Group Members  |  Teaching  |  Publications  |  News & Links  | 


DME253 Mechanics of Materials
This course provides fundamental knowledge of the continuum mechanics. Beginning with basic concepts of stress and strain, this course explores the multiple aspects of structural strength and deformation in various-typed members under axial loading, torsion, and bending.


MAE308 Engineering Materials and Alloys
This course provides fundamental knowledge of the structure-property-process relations in engineering materials and alloys. The topics include (1) alloy design philosophy, (2) basic theories of thermodynamics and phase diagram, (3) tools of microstructural analysis, (4) phase transformation theories, (5) strengthening mechanism, and (6) advanced engineering materials and their possible applications.


MAE404 Mechanical Behavior of Materials
This course provides an introductory treatment of the mechanical behavior of materials with a balanved mechanics-materials approach. The topics include (1) review of fundamental continuum mechanics. (2) microstructural defects, (3) theories of plastic deformation in single- and poly-crystalline materials, (4) strengthening mechanisms, (5) Mechanical testing, and (6) mechanical behavior of advanced materials such as amorphous alloys and nanocrystalline materials.


MAE958 Nanoindentation Contact Mechanics
This course covers (1) fundamental theories of classic contact mechanics and then (2) new theories and various applications of nanoindentation technique which is one of the most popular methods to explore the small-scale mechanical behavior of materials.


MAE959 Special Issues on Mechanical Behavior of Materials
This course explores new issues in mechanical behavior of materials across multi-scale from macro to nano level. Topics covered include recent researches on mechanical behaviors of metals, ceramics, nanostructured materials, metallic glasses, polymers, thin film, MEMS, and so on. The related phenomena and testing techniques are reviewed as well.


MAE960 Fracture and Damage of Materials
This course will introduce basic theories of fracture mechanics/damage mechanics, and microstructural effects on fracture and fatigue in metals, ceramics, glasses, semiconductors, nanostructural materials, and thin films. Some case studies on related topics are also introduced and discussed.