MAE 7110 - [Micromechanical Modeling and Diffraction Experiments for Crystalline Solids]

Fall. 4 credits.

Prerequisite: MAE 6110 or permission of instructor. Next offered 2014-2015. (Offered alternate years) Enrollment limited to: graduate standing.

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Course develops methods for understanding the micromechanical state of materials under load based on x-ray diffraction and crystal-based representations of material microstructure and response. Methods for reducing high energy synchrotron x-ray data are presented focusing on lattice strain, elastic behavior and residual stress. Representation of crystal scale distributions of stress and orientation are presented using a finite element-based discretization of orientation space.