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    EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

    Courses and Certificate Fees

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    INR 1000yesIIT Kanpur

    The Syllabus

    • Introduction
    • Elasticity, Definitions and units Originf of Elasticity
    • Engineering Stress Strain Curve: Strength and Ductility
    • True Stress- True Strain curve and Necking criterion

    • Atomistic basis of elasticity
    • Stress at a point & Poisson's ratio
    • Normal stresses & Shear stresses
    • Stress tensor: Representation of stresses & their independence
    • Plane stress & stress on oblique plane

    • Mohr's circle of stress
    • Principal stresses and strains
    • Concept of Strain

    • State of Strain at a Point
    • Hydrostatic and deviatoric stress state
    • Elastic stress strain relations & Elastic constants
    • Compliance and Stiffness tensor, and Elastic strain energy

    • Yielding criteria for crystalline solids
    • Atomistic mechanism of yielding and Slip
    • Resolved & critical resolved shear stress
    • Introduction to Dislocations: Edge and Screw
    • Mixed dislocation and Burgers circuit

    • Glide, cross slip and climb of a dislocation
    • Peach Koehler Equation
    • Stress field around dislocations
    • Dislocation interactions and strain hardening

    • Dislocation sources
    • Stacking faults in FCC
    • Dislocation locks
    • Dislocation intersections: Jogs and Kinks

    • Solid solution strengthening
    • Yield Point phenomenon
    • Precipitation hardening and dispersion strengthening 
    • Grain boundaries and grain boundary strengthening, Inverse hall-perch relation

    • Twinning in materials
    • Fracture: Griffith theory, Fracture mechanics, LEFM and EPFM

    • Creep deformation and superplasticity

    • Fatigue of Materials

    • Different Mechanical characterization techniques
    • Hardness, Impact testing, Nanoindentation, high strain rate testing

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