MSE 591 Composite Materials
This course emphasizes materials engineering, mechanistic aspects, manufacturing and design components is tailored for graduate students in materials science and engineering and undergraduate students of all engineering majors. Among the course topics are fiber and matrix materials; fiber-matrix interfaces; structural polymers; metal, ceramic, and carbon matrix composites; durability; thermoelastic behavior of laminated polymeric composites; statistical strength theories of continuous-fiber composites; nanocomposites; environmental effects; processing and manufacturing of laminated composites; and characterization and nondestructive evaluation. The course will include two lab sessions and one design project.