Courses

Undergraduate Courses

Title	Description	Objectives
Aer E 321 Flight Structure Analysis (3-0) Cr. 3. F.S. Prereq: E M 324, Credit or enrollment in MATH 266 or 267	Introduction to elasticity, airworthiness, and flight loads. Introduction to fatigue. Materials selection for flight applications. Thin walled cross-sections under bending, torsion, and shear loads using classical methods. Shear center. Column buckling. Matrix methods of structural analysis.	By completion of the course, students should be able to – Acquired Mechanistic understanding of sandwich panels design and performance. – Exposure to different classes of materials for fiber and matrix – Exposure to different polymer matrix composite (PCM) manufacturing techniques. – Exposure to the technical aspects of composite fabrication process and testing. – Exposure to recent advances in multi-functional composite structures. – Design, fabricate and test composite structure for a predetermined performance objective. – Calculation of the effective properties of composite laminate, including stiffness, density, thermal and electrical conductivities, with focus on: – Effective properties of fiber-matrix mix – Upper and lower property limits of a single layer (lamina-theory). – Effective properties of multilayer (laminate-theory). – Calculation of mechanical performance of laminated structure including: – Mechanical properties (Tensile, Compressive, Flexural, In-plane and Interlaminate Shear. – Fracture, fatigue and creep behavior. – Role of Environmental effects, including temperature and moisture.
Aer E 423 Composite Flight Structure (2-2) Cr. 3. S. Prereq: E M 324; MAT E 273	Fabrication, testing and analysis of composite materials used in flight structures. Basic laminate theory of beams, plates and shells. Manufacturing and machining considerations of various types of composites. Testing of composites for material properties, strength and defects. Student projects required.	By completion of this course, students should be able to: – Identify airframe loads and structural components/materials used in aircrafts – Select and optimize materials and their hybrids, commonly used in aerospace industry – Apply basic principles of elasticity and failure theories to aerospace structures – Analyze 2-D trusses, thin-walled beams (open and closed) in bending, shear and torsion, 2-D frames, thin plates in bending – Solve 1-D and 2-D problems using the matrix methods – Analyze structural stability in columns, thin plates and airframe panels
EM 324 Mechanics of Materials (3-0) Cr. 3. F.S.SS. Prereq: 274	Plane stress, plane strain, stress- strain relationships, and elements of material behavior. Application of stress and deformation analysis to members subject to centric, torsional, flexural, and combined loadings. Elementary considerations of theories of failure, buckling. Nonmajor graduate credit.
EM 417 Experimental Mechanics (Same as Aer E 417.) (2-2) Cr. 3. Alt. F.. offered 2006. Prereq: 324	Introduction of different aspects of measuring deformation, strain, and stress for practical engineering problems. Strain gage theory and application. Selected laboratory experiments. Nonmajor graduate credit.
Mat E 273 Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering (2-0) Cr. 2. F.S.SS. Prereq: Chem 167 or 177.	Bonding, structure and properties of solids. Relationship between the structure and defects in solids and their mechanical, thermal, electrical and optical properties. General overview of properties and processing of metals, ceramics, polymers and composite material systems with an emphasis on control of mechanical properties and lightweight

Graduate Courses

Title	General Information	Write Up
EM 516 Mechanics of Deformable Solids	(3-0) Cr. 3. S. Prereq: E M 510.	Fundamental mechanics of linear elasticity, formulation and solution of simple elastostatic boundary value problems. Kinematics of small deformations, constitutive equations for isotropic and anisotropic media. Field equations for elastic solids, plane strain/plane stress and some classic canonical solutions. Constitutive models of inelastic/plastic solids and selected problems of elastoplasticiy, contact mechanics, fracture mechanics and defects in crystalline solids.
EM 517 Experimental Mechanics	(3-0) Cr. 3. S. Prereq: E M 510.	Fundamental mechanics of linear elasticity, formulation and solution of simple elastostatic boundary value problems. Kinematics of small deformations, constitutive equations for isotropic and anisotropic media. Field equations for elastic solids, plane strain/plane stress and some classic canonical solutions. Constitutive models of inelastic/plastic solids and selected problems of elastoplasticiy, contact mechanics, fracture mechanics and defects in crystalline solids.
EM 564 Fracture Mechanics	(Same as M S E 564 and M E 564.) (3-0) Cr. 3. S. Prereq: 324 and either Mat E 211 or 272.	Undergraduates: Permission of instructor. Materials and mechanics approach to fracture and fatigue. Fracture mechanics, brittle and ductile fracture, fracture and fatigue characteristics, fracture of thin films and layered structures. Fracture and fatigue tests, mechanics and materials designed to avoid fracture or fatigue.