Assignment: Each student completes a term paper of selected topics that (a) addresses a fracture phenomenon in materials or structures, and (b) involves analyses using fracture mechanics. The project contributes 25% of the final grade, distributed as follows:
- 5%: April 7 (Monay). Post your title and abstract in iMechanica, using the following format:
- Title (e.g., EM 388F Term Paper: Fracture in Biological Materials).
- Tags (EM 388F, Spring 2008, University of Texas at Austin, fracture mechanics, term paper, plus others related to your topic)
- Body: (i) Describe the fracture phenomenon. (ii) Explain how fracture mechanics analysis can be performed. (iii) Cite at least 1 journal article.
- 10%: April 28 and 30. Give a 15-minute presentation. Use power point slides.
- 10%: May 9 (Friday). Upload a pdf file of your final term paper as an attachment to the same blog entry as your abstract.
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Term Paper Presentations on Monday, April 28, 2008
1. Fracture Mechanics of Delamination Buckling and Growth in Laminated Composites
2. Fatigue analysis of Deepwater Risers
3. Channel Cracking in Low-k Interconnect Structures
4. Discussion of fracture criterions with the crack surface boundary conditions of piezoelectric materials
5. Application of Fracture Mechanics on Cortical Bone Studies
6. Interface Fracture – Analysis and Numerical Assessment of SAM-SAM Fracture with ABAQUS
7. Nanoindentation in experimental fracure mechanics
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Term Paper Presentations on Wednesday, April 30, 2008
1. The effect of free surface on stress intensity factor in 3D crack problem
2. Subcritical Cracking of Low-k Dielectrics
3. Low-Cycle Fatigue Behavior of a Lead-Free Solder
4. Fracture of Orthotropic Materials under Mixed Mode Loading
5. Numerical Method in Fracture Mechanics
6. Crack growth in linear viscoelastic media
7. Theory and analysis of a DCB specimen for determining the toughness of PC-3 Prostate Cancer
RH