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4764 (v.6) Mechanical Properties of Materials 201


Area: Department of Applied Physics
Credits: 12.5
Contact Hours: 3.0
 
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
 
Lecture: 2 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 4775 (v.7) Structure of Solids 102 or any previous version
Co Requisite(s): 4776 (v.6) Structure of Solids 201
 
Syllabus: Significance of hardness, tensile strength, creep, fatigue, impact strength and fracture toughness. Techniques for measurement. Modes of deformation, yielding in metals and polymers, theories of yield point, influence of grain size, mechanisms of creep and fatigue. Mechanisms of fracture.
 
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Field of Education: 10301 Physics
Funding Cluster: 08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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