Description of Individual Course Units
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Offered By |
Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences |
Level of Course Unit |
Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree) |
Course Coordinator |
PROFESSOR DOCTOR EVREN MELTEM TOYGAR |
Offered to |
M.Sc. Metallurgical and Material Engineering |
Course Objective |
Composite materials, which have high performance in structural applications, are used very effectively. Therefore it is necessary to develop accurate reliable predictive methods for describing their failure behavior and to have analytical representation of the individual failure modes and to understand how the physical properties of the constituents affect the fracture behavior of composite systems. The aim of this course is firstly to get the structural behavior and failure characteristics of composite materials with a cracked layer and fiber. Secondly, to calculate energy level by considering the strain energy density criterion to analyze the fracture behavior of unidirectional fiber-reinforced compositesand to understand the catastropic failure due to fiber breaking, matrix cracking and interface debonding. Thirdly, to get the structural behavior and failure characteristics of sandwich materials. |
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit |
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Mode of Delivery |
Face -to- Face |
Prerequisites and Co-requisites |
None |
Recomended Optional Programme Components |
None |
Course Contents |
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Recomended or Required Reading |
1. Textbook(s): G.C.Sih and E.P.Chen, Mechanics of Fracture : Cracks in Composite Materials, Martibus Nijhoff Publishers, 1981. |
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods |
The course is taught in a lecture, class presentation and discussion format. All class members are expected to attend and both the lecture and take part in the discussion sessions. Besides the taught lecture, group presentations are to be prepared by the groups assigned for that week and presented to open a discussion session. |
Assessment Methods |
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Further Notes About Assessment Methods |
None |
Assessment Criteria |
There will be minimum 4 homeworks and 1 presentation, averaged out grades for which will be 20 % of the overall success of the students. mid-term examinations will be averaged and affect the grade by 30 %. Final exam will be 50 % of the resulting grade. |
Language of Instruction |
English |
Course Policies and Rules |
Optional, if the instructor needs to add some explanation or further note, this column can be selected from the DEBIS menu. |
Contact Details for the Lecturer(s) |
Prof.Dr.M.Evren Toygar |
Office Hours |
will be annonced at lecture. |
Work Placement(s) |
None |
Workload Calculation |
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Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes |
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