MACE 61058: Plasticity – Theory

 

Unit specification

Coordinator: Dr. Qingming Li
Lecturers: Dr. Jack Wu and Dr. Henry Tan

Teaching schedule (Spring 2009)

 

Time:    9-11am Wednesday

            1-2pm Friday

Place:   Renold/E2

 

 

 

Wednesday

Friday

Week 7

Experimental observations

18/3

Handout: Experimental.pdf

20/3
Handout: Multiaxial.pdf

(revised)

Week 8

Multiaxial loading

25/3

27/3

Handout: Criterion.pdf (revised)

Easter break

Week 9

Distortion energy

22/4

 

24/4

Handout: Flow.pdf
(revised)

Week 10

Von Mises yield criteria

29/4

 

1/5

Tutorial 1

(revised, with solutions) 

Week 11

Flow theory of plasticity

6/5

Handout: Constitutive.pdf

(revised)

8/5

Tutorial 2

Week 12

Constitutive equations

13/5

15/5

Summary

 

Plasticity Lab


Lab-report (tensile test) assignment

Tensile test data: aluminium, copper, steel

 

Lab-report (bulge test) assignment, (revised)

 

MSc (MED) second semester Timetable
Reference: Harvard notes

 

Henry Tan's homepage