Lecture 6: Introduction to Dislocations
These slides are used in a course on Plastic Deformation in Crystalline Solids.
These slides are used in a course on Plastic Deformation in Crystalline Solids.
Elsevier is pleased to announce that Professor Thomas Hughes will be presenting 'Isogeometric Analysis', the Mechanics Research Communications Elsevier Distinguished Lecture (sponsored by Elsevier and the New Jersey Institute of Technology Granular Science Laboratory). The lecture will take place in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center, NJIT, on Wednesday April 18, 2012, 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. and we are hoping to post it on the web at a later date. Full details are available at
On May 29th, Prof. Zhigang Suo, a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and professor of Mechanics and Materials at Harvard University, made two lectures for teachers and students in Tongji University, titled “from study in Harvard to be elected to the US National Academy of Engineering” and “Mechanics of Soft Active Materials”.
A very breif introduction to aspects of dynamic fracture mechanics.
An overview of several approaches to computational fracture mechanics for ductile structural metals.
In this lecture I'll describe a recent PhD Thesis by Zhen Zhang.
Matrix cracking in composites and the competition between penetration and deflection when a crack approaches an interface, and the competition between advance in the interface and kinking out of the interface for an interface crack.
G. Bao and Z. Suo, " Remarks on crack-bridging concepts," Applied Mechanics Review. 45, 355-366 (1992).
Buckling delamination, with two slides on 1D vonKarman plates.