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Fracture of Structural Materials

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MAT SCI XLC 243A

This course is part of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science (HSSEAS) Master of Science in Engineering Online (MSOL) program. It is available only to students pre-approved by HSSEAS.For more information visit msol.ucla.edu.

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MSE 243A Fracture of Structural Materials (Instructor: Prof. Ono, K.) Lecture, four hours; laboratory, two hours; outside study, four hours. Requisite: course 143A. Engineering and sci­entific aspects of crack nucleation, slow crack growth, and unstable fracture. Fracture mechanics, dislocation models, fatigue, fracture in reactive envi­ronments, alloy development, fracture-safe design. Letter grading.