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What's wrong with the way we learn Applied Mechanics?

Submitted by Eloy Villanueva on
education

I was reading professor Zhigang Suo's post titled "What's Wrong with Applied Mechanics", thinking about the large amount of knowledge available. There are so many applications of mechanics that they seem endless in any subfield that one can think of. It made me recall some homework problems that wanted to include real life applications. However, real life applications tend to turn out much more complicated than what can be covered in one homework problem.

Experiment 4: Precipitation Hardening of Aluminum Alloys

Submitted by Henry Tan on
precipitation
hardening
Materials of Engineering Laboratory

The strength and hardness of some metal alloys may be enhanced by the formation of extremely small
uniformly dispersed particles of a second phase within the original phase matrix; this must be accomplished
by appropriate heat treatment.

Experiment 3: Mechanical Testing- Tensile Testing

Submitted by Henry Tan on
tensile
Materials of Engineering Laboratory

The mechanical properties of a material are directly related to the response of the material when it's subjected to mechanical stresses. Since characteristic phenomena or behavior occur at discrete engineering stress and strain levels, the basic mechanical properties of a material are found by determining the stresses and corresponding strains for various critical occurrences.

How to read new comments at a glance?

Submitted by Zhigang Suo on
RSS

As the number of comments increases rapidly, how can anyone keep up? One answer is to use a RSS reader. The service is free, and takes 5 minutes to set up. It allows you to see all new comments at a glance, without clicking on individual ones. Once you have set up your Google Reader, paste the URL for the feed of comments crss

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