Mechanical behaviour of materials

This course provides a comprehensive understanding of how materials respond to mechanical forces, with a focus on the relationships between structure, properties, and performance. Students will explore the fundamental concepts of stress, strain, behaviour of materials. It will help the students to understand the concepts of stress, strain, and analyze material behavior under different loading conditions, including normal and shear. To conduct material tests to measure mechanical properties like hardness, toughness, and strength. To make informed material selection decisions for engineering design based on mechanical behavior.The Mechanical Behaviour of Materials course explores the fundamental principles governing how materials respond to external forces and environmental conditions. The course typically covers the understanding stress-strain relationships, elastic deformation, and plastic deformation mechanisms. Study of crack formation and propagation, fracture toughness, and brittle vs. ductile fracture behavior. Overview of tensile testing, hardness testing, impact testing, and other techniques used to assess material properties. The course includes a mix of theoretical analysis and practical experiments to demonstrate material behavior, with applications in engineering design, failure analysis, and material selection. This course has been designed to get a quick view of all the important concepts related to the mechanical behaviour of materials represented in an interactive way.