MAULANA AZAD NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BHOPAL
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEEING
Course Information
Name of course: Mechanical Behaviour of Materials (ME 369)
Name of Instructor: Dr. Abhinav Varshney (abhinavv@[Link])
Classroom: G-08, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Time: 1100 HRS to 1200 HRS; Mon, Thu, Fri
Syllabus
State of stress, stress transformation in 2D and 3D, stress tensor,
strain, strain tensor, stress and strain deviator, Mohr’s circle of
stress and strain, strain energy, origins of elasticity, elastic
constants in isotropic and anisotropic materials.
Plastic deformation, stress-strain curves, failure criterion and
yield locus, octahedral shear stress and strain, plastic stress-
strain relations, visco-elastic and visco-plastic deformation.
Perfect crystal structures, Imperfections in crystalline solids,
Dislocation theory, microscopic basis of plastic deformation in
crystalline and non-crystalline materials, strengthening via
microstructure, Residual stresses, Fatigue and failure
Fracture of materials, introduction to fracture mechanics, linear
elastic fracture mechanics, Fracture toughness, the physics of
fracture and toughening mechanisms. Creep and fatigue failure.
Numerous case studies will be discussed quite often for better
understanding.
Text books:
1. Thomas H. Courtney, Mechanical Behavior of Materials, McGraw Hill Education
(India) Pvt. Ltd, Second Edition, 2000.
2. J. Rosler, H. Harders, M. Baker, Mechanical behavior of engineering materials,
Springer, 2007.
3. N. E. Dowling, Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Prentice-Hall, 1993.
4. Marc Andre Meyers, Krishna Kumar Chawla, Mechanical Behavior of materials,
Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Reference Books:
1. G. E. Dieter, Mechanical Metallurgy, McGraw-Hill, 1986.
2. L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz, Theory of Elasticity, Pergamon Press, 1986.
3. Oscar Hoffman and George Sachs, Introduction to the theory of plasticity for
engineers, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1953.
4. Wei Cai, W.D. Nix, Imperfections in Crystalline Solids, Materials Research
Society and Cambridge University Press, 2016.
5. D. J. Bacon, and D. Hull. Introduction to Dislocations, Pergamon Press, 1984
6. J. Weertman and J.R. Weertman, Elementary Dislocation theory, Macmillan, 1964.
7. D. Broek, Elementary engineering fracture mechanics, Springer Science +
Business Media, 1982.
8. T.L. Anderson, Fracture Mechanics, Fundamentals and Applications, CRC Press,
2017.