New Course Announcement: Micromechanics of Composite Materials
12/31/2011
A new course - ENME E4115y: Micromechanics of Composite Materials – is offered in the coming Spring Semester by Professor Huiming Yin. As various emerging composite materials have been increasingly used in civil, mechanical, biomedical, and materials engineering, this course will provide students fundamental understanding on mechanical behavior of composite materials and prepare them for future research and development of new composite materials. The classes will be given on Monday 4:10 -6:40PM. As a prerequisite, students should already understand the concepts of boundary value problems in solid mechanics. It is suitable to senior undergraduate and graduate students.
Micromechanics
encompasses mechanics related to microstructures of materials, through which
engineers can tailor the effective material properties through manipulating the
microstructure of material phases. For example, the functionally graded
material in the figure exhibits a continuous variation of overall material
properties through a continuously changing microstructure, and thus they can fulfills
multi-functions of different material phases through optimizing the material
gradation. Continuum theory of solid mechanics will be used to investigate the
mechanical behavior of materials. In this course, students will be exposed to
micromechanics theory, microstructure of materials, homogenization, and
constitutive models of different types of composite materials. The course will
enable students to interpret and predict effective mechanical properties of
existing and emerging composites through microstructure-based modeling and
design.