ENGS 33: Solid Mechanics
This course consists of lectures, labs and group projects that cover fundamentals of statics and mechanics of deformable bodies. Through the lectures, students will learn the concepts of force, moment and equilibrium, stress/strain analysis of bars, circular shafts, trusses and beams under uniaxial tension/compression, torsion, bending and combination of these loads. Through the labs, students will learn how to obtain the stress-strain curve of a material through uniaxial tensile test and extract key mechanical properties from the stress-strain curve. Students will also work individually and collaboratively to design experiment to measure the stress-strain curve of soft materials, use Computer-Aided Engineering tools like ABAQUS to guide the design and unlock the fundamental physics that governs the material behavior.
ENGS 142: Intermediate Solid Mechanics
Exact and approximate solutions of the equations of elasticity are developed and applied to the study of stress and deformation in structural and mechanical elements. The topics will include energy methods, advanced problems in torsion and bending, stress concentrations, etc. Although most applications will involve elastic deformation, post-yield behavior of elastic-perfectly plastic bodies will also be studied. The course will also include numerous applications of finite element methods in solid mechanics.
ENGG 230: Fatigue and Fracture
A study of the fracture and fatigue behavior of a wide range of engineering materials (metals, ceramics, polymers, biological materials, and composites) are presented in this course. Topics include work of fracture, fracture mechanics (linear elastic, elastic-plastic and plastic), fracture toughness measurements, crack stability, slow crack growth, environmentally assisted cracking, fatigue phenomenology, the Paris Law and derivatives, crack closure, residual stress effects, and random loading effects. These topics will be presented in the context of designing to avoid fracture and fatigue.
ENGS 24: Science of Materials
Project 1: Mechanical properties of Polymer Derived Ceramics
ENGG 192: Independent or Group Study in Engineering Sciences
This is an independent study course in lieu of, or supplementary to, a 100-level course.
Previous teaching at CSULB
MAE 373: Mechanics of Deformable Bodies
MAE 409A: Finite Element Methods
MAE 561: Fracture Mechanics
MAE 567: Advanced Mechanics of Deformable Bodies
MAE 568 Fatigue and Creep