Orientations and lattice strains in crystals.

Mechanics of Materials Research Program

Graduate students in Mechanics of Materials often have graduate school concentrations such as Materials and Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Systems and Design or Biomechanical Engineering.

Faculty

• John Booker: Tribology; hydrodynamic lubrication; fluid film bearing design analysis
• Paul Dawson: Material processing, micromechanics, plasticity, computational mechanics, see The Deformation Process Simulation Laboratory
• Matthew Miller: Experimentally based material model development, effect of processing on properties, see The Deformation Process Simulation Laboratory
• Marjolein van der Meulen: Orthopaedic biomechanics, skeletal functional adaptation, bone structural behavior, mechanics of muskuloskeletal tissues
• Herbert Voelcker: CAD -- solid modeling, assembly modeling & analysis, dimensional tolerancing; tolerance standardization and codification
• Nicholas Zabaras: Deformation and Solidification processes; Computational Mechanics and Mathematics; see Materials Process Design and Control Laboratory
• Alan Zehnder: Fracture and fatigue, experimental mechanics, metal cutting, mechanics of materials

Trabecular architecture of bone.

Graduate Courses

• M&AE 412 Smash and Crash: Mechanics of Large Deformations
• M&AE 464 Orthopaedic Tissue Mechanics
• M&AE 514 Design for Manufacture and Assembly
• M&AE 612 Materials Processing: Theory and Applications
• M&AE 613 Computational Methods In Materials Processing
• M&AE 615 Experiments In Materials Processing
• M&AE 655 Composite Materials
• M&AE 664 Mechanics of Bone
• M&AE 712 Mechanics of Materials With Oriented Microstructures