Covers the fundamental concepts of structural mechanics, including materials properties, stress and strain, equilibrium of forces and moments, and elementary structures.
Covers the formation, properties, and behavior of metallic glasses, including the importance of rapid cooling and the mechanical properties of these unique materials.
Explores crack growth, stress intensity factors, and fracture mechanics in materials, emphasizing energy considerations and critical stress intensity for crack growth onset.
Explores shock-induced amorphization in ultrahard ceramics, investigating the anomalous deformation of boron carbide and comparing Hugoniot curves with experimental data.
Explores phonon frequencies, heat capacity, thermal properties, vibrations in solids, free electron gas, Fermi function, and density functional theory.