MTLE-6830

Deformation of Materials and Rheology

A course intended to acquaint the student with the phenomenological description of constitutive equations for solids and melts. The necessary background material on stress tensors, strain tensors, rate-of-deformation tensors, invariants, principal axes, and isotropic and deviatoric tensors is fully developed. Specific applications include the linear elastic solid, the anisotropic elastic solid, the nonlinear elastic solid, the viscoelastic solid, creep, relaxation, yielding, viscoelastic fluids, and viscometric flows. The required mathematics background is a course in linear algebra (matrices) or equivalent. Fall term.

3 credit hours