Lectures related to Smart Composites: Materials and Applications

Explores critical strain, bending mechanics, and strain calculation in flexible probes.

Smart Composites: Self-Healing and Sensing

Explores smart composites with self-healing capabilities, shape memory alloys, impact protection, and structural health monitoring using sensing fibers.

Shock Waves and Brittle Material Response

Covers shock waves, brittle material response, phase transformation, and Hugoniot relationships in materials under stress.

Cost Modelling for Sustainable Innovation

Introduces cost modelling as a tool for sustainable innovation and covers topics such as transport CO2 emissions and material properties.

Mechanical Behavior of Materials: Deformation & Fatigue

Explores deformation mechanisms, cyclic loading, and fatigue phenomena in materials.

Chemistry: Atomic Structure and Thermodynamics

Covers atomic structure, thermodynamics, material properties, and ideal gas law.

Classical Laminate Theory

Covers Classical Laminate Theory for solving mechanics problems with multiple material layers, discussing displacements, strains, stresses, and equilibrium.

Fracture and Toughness of Materials

Explores fracture, toughness, and crack propagation in materials, emphasizing surface energy and material resistance.

Anisotropic Elasticity: Examples

Covers anisotropic elasticity with examples of materials having varying properties in different directions.

Fatigue: Material Response to Repeated Stress

Explores how materials respond to repeated stress cycles, leading to potential rupture and the distinction between high-cycle and low-cycle fatigue.

Normal Stresses: Internal Stress and Strain

Introduces internal stress and strain, material properties, and design considerations for axial loads and direct shear.

Deformable Bodies: Stress, Strain, and Elasticity

Covers stress, strain, and elasticity in deformable bodies under different forces.

Deformation and Creep in Materials

Explores deformation, creep, material properties, mechanical tests, ceramics, polymers, metals, and atomic bonds.

Fracture and Toughness of Materials

Covers stress intensity, fracture, and toughness of materials, including the behavior of ductile and brittle materials.

Axial Loading: Stress and Strain in Deformable Bodies

Covers axial loading, stress, strain, and their implications in deformable bodies.

Sustainable Materials: Lifecycle, Properties, and Design

Explores material lifecycle, properties, sustainability, and design, emphasizing the importance of auditing products for sustainability and discussing the evaluation of consumer products like LEGO.

Dislocation Mechanics

Explores the mechanics of dislocations in materials, including their movement, interaction, and impact on material properties.

Comsol: Parallel plate capacitor

Focuses on modeling a parallel plate capacitor using Comsol, emphasizing clear project ideas and group collaboration.

Deformable Bodies: Axial Loading (1D)

Covers equilibrium positions, stress, strain, material properties, and axial loading in deformable bodies.

Deformable Bodies: Introduction to Structural Mechanics

Covers deformable bodies, stress-strain relationships, material properties, and structural failure in structural mechanics.