Fracture of Structural Materials

MSE 243A Fracture of Structural Materials (Instructor: Prof.

Ono, K.) Lecture, four hours; laboratory, two hours; outside study, four hours.

Requisite: course 143A.

Engineering and sci­entific aspects of crack nucleation, slow crack growth, and unstable fracture.

Fracture mechanics, dislocation models, fatigue, fracture in reactive envi­ronments, alloy development, fracture-safe design.

Letter grading.