Standard syllabus
Micromechanics · Graduate · Engineering
Topics
Continuum micromechanics
- Representative volume element (RVE) concept
- Eshelby's inclusion problem and tensor solutions
- Mean-field homogenization: Voigt and Reuss bounds
- Mori-Tanaka and self-consistent schemes
- Effective properties of composite microstructures
- Hashin-Shtrikman bounds
- Periodic boundary conditions on RVEs
- Finite element microstructural models
- Statistical volume element and size effects
- Microstructure characterization from imaging
Crystal plasticity and damage
- Slip systems in FCC, BCC, and HCP crystals
- Schmid law and resolved shear stress
- Phenomenological crystal plasticity formulations
- Texture evolution and Taylor models
- Dislocation density based models (intro)
- Void nucleation and growth in ductile metals
- Phase field models for microstructure evolution
- Grain boundary mechanics and Hall-Petch relation
- Size-dependent plasticity at microscale
- Coupling micromechanics to macro FEA
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- Continuum micromechanics
Representative volume element (RVE) concept
Coming soon - Crystal plasticity and damage
Slip systems in FCC, BCC, and HCP crystals
Coming soon - Multiscale simulation and experiments
Two-scale FE² computational homogenization
Coming soon - Research frontiers
High-entropy alloy microstructure modeling
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