Lectures related to Configurational Forces: Understanding Interaction Energy in Solid Mechanics

Configurational Forces: Defects in Materials

Explores configurational forces in materials, emphasizing equilibrium conditions and defect interactions.

Defects in Materials: Structure and Behavior

Explores defects in materials, grain boundaries, grain coarsening kinetics, the glass transition, and vacancy creation.

Explores coherent and semi-coherent grain boundaries, displacement shift complete lattice, and misfit dislocations in materials science.

Mechanical Behavior of Materials

Explores large deformations, dislocations, grain boundaries, and material behavior under different conditions.

Plastic Deformation and Energy Accumulation

Explores energy accumulation in materials during plastic deformation and the effects of dislocation density and heating.

Classical Laminate Theory: Analysis & Equilibrium

Covers the Classical Laminate Theory and its analysis of displacements, strains, stresses, and equilibrium in laminated composites.

Anelasticity and Mechanical Spectroscopy

Explores anelasticity, defects, thermodynamics, internal energy, dislocations, and mechanical spectroscopy.

Multiscale Mechanics of Metal Plasticity

Explores the multiscale mechanics of metal plasticity, covering dislocations, crystal plasticity, and atomistic plasticity, with a focus on dynamic strain aging in aluminum alloys.

A Random Walk Through Random Materials

Explores random materials, solutes, and their impact on mechanical performance, including strength, toughness, and fatigue.

Dislocation Movement and Recrystallization

Covers dislocation movement, obstacle effects, solute influence, and recrystallization kinetics.

Mechanics of Transforming Materials

Discusses sources of strain, transformation strains, and behavior of materials undergoing transformation in constrained bodies.

Path Collective Variables for Structural Phase Transformations

Explores path collective variables for sampling structural phase transformations, focusing on solid-solid transformations and topologically close-packed phases in complex alloys.

Thermal Treatments: Dislocations, Grain Boundaries, and Hardening Mechanisms

Explores dislocations, grain boundaries, and hardening mechanisms in metals through thermal treatments and recrystallization.

Classical Laminate Theory

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

Idealized Surfaces: Symmetric Tilt Grain Boundaries

Explores symmetric tilt grain boundaries, twist grain boundaries, and the atomistic view of tilt grain boundaries.

Deformable Structures: Statically Determinate and Indeterminate Systems

Discusses the analysis of statically determinate and indeterminate deformable structures.

Defects in 2D Materials

Explores common defects in 2D materials, their impact, mitigation strategies, and positive applications.

Dislocation Mechanics

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

Defects: Structure and Stability

Explores the structure and stability of defects in crystals, emphasizing their impact on material properties.

Sintering Basics: Solid State Grain Growth & Microstructures

Explores the fundamentals of sintering in ceramics, covering matter transport mechanisms, stages of sintering, and microstructure evolution.