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You are here: Home / Mechanics@TAMU / New Course Announcement: MEMA 625 /AERO 617 Micromechanics

New Course Announcement: MEMA 625 /AERO 617 Micromechanics

November 4, 2024

We are excited to announce a new MEMA course focused on micromechanics, ideal for students in the mechanics of materials. This course provides essential tools to evaluate bulk properties of heterogeneous media, covering elastic, thermal, and electrical properties of multifunctional materials and composites. Key topics include the Eshelby solution, mean-field approaches, and computational micromechanics. Students will also gain insight into homogenization methods for materials with periodic microstructures. Don’t miss this opportunity to deepen your understanding of advanced material modeling! Please register or reach out to Dr. Dimitris Lagoudas for additional information.

MEMA 625 / AERO 617 Spring 2025 Micromechanics Location: Zach 361 Time: T/R 9:35 – 10:50 Course description All materials exhibit a microstructure at the appropriate length scale. The micromechanics course will present an in-depth analysis of the macroscopic response of microscopically heterogeneous media, such as polycrystalline metals and multiphase composites. The course’s main objective is to develop a framework for evaluating macroscopic (effective) material properties in terms of microscale parameters such as shape, volume fraction and individual constitutive properties of each heterogeneity. The Eshelby solution of an ellipsoidal elastic inclusion will be the corner stone for developing effective elastic properties with an extension to thermal, electrical and mass diffusion effective properties. Explicit expressions will be given for the dilute approximation, the self-consistent method and the Mori-Tanka mean field approximation. In addition, a computational homogenization methodology will be explored for media with periodic microstructure, such as most of the 3D printed materials. The course will include additional topics based on the need of the students and it will include a project derived from the students’ research areas.

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