ME 4733Deformation and Fracture of Engineering Materials

Instructor: Dr. Honglai Tantan@me.lsu.edu

http://me.lsu.edu/~tan/teaching/defrac.htm

Explosive cracking — simulationH. Tan, CSAFE annual report, 2001

Center for the Simulation of Accidental Fires and Explosions

Explosive cracking — experiment

P.M. Dickson et al., Los Alamos National Laboratories

Ignition of PBX 9501 after first heated to 200°C inaround one hour and then ignited by hot wire at the center.

Brown University

Nano & micromechanics Laboratory

Course Outline

Stress-strain curve

Necking

Fatigue Fracture

Cyclic stress

Case study: how the World Trade Center fell

The design of the WTC saved thousands of lives by standing for well over an hour after the planes crashed into its twin towers.

High temperature for buckling and collapsing.

Multiscale thinking

D. RaabeComputational Materials Science1998

After class reading

Hertsburg

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