<p>Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour; outside study, seven hours. Requisite: course 160. Materials and environmental factors affecting mechanical properties of nonmetallic crystalline solids, including atomic bonding and structure, atomic-scale defects, microstructural features, residual stresses, temperature, stress state, strain rate, size and surface conditions. Letter grading.</p>

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Mechanical Properties of Nonmetallic Crystalline Solids

MATSCI246A

4 units