THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

ASE 324L - Aerospace Materials Laboratory

Fall 2008

Syllabus

Announcements

Lab data can be downloaded at: ASE Materials Labs.
We will have our first labs in the second week (Sept. 8-11). Your lab report is due at the beginning of your next lab.

Reading Materials

New: Materials on YouTube
New: Material Choices for Mars, by J. L. Marcy, A. C. Shalanski, M.A.R. Yarmuch, and B.M. Patchett. Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, vol. 13, 208-217 (2004).
Material Selection Charts, from University of Cambridge.
Why aircraft fail, by S.J. Findlay and N.D. Harrison. Materials Today, vol. 5 (11), 18-25, November 2002.
New: Introduction to dislocations, from University of Cambridge.
Deformation in nanocrystalline metals, by H. Van Swygenhoven and J.R. Weertman. Materials Today 9 (5), 24-31 (2006).
Dislocation animations from Discrete Dislocation Dynamics simulations.
Hardness Testing, from Gordon England, with hardness number calculators and conversion tables.