What you are expected to know at the end of this chapter?
Why this course is important (other than it is a required course)? How to measure and estimate mechanical properties of elastic materials? o Different loading types o Different types of Stress-strain relations o Difference between elastic and Non-linear elastic materials o Different types of modulus measurements o What is Poisson’s ratio, typical values and how it can be estimated/measured o What is yield stress and how it can be estimated o What is elastic-plastic behavior o What is work, energy, toughness, modulus of toughness, elastic resilience, hyper-elastic resilience, and how they can be estimated? o How to estimate area under the curve using trapezoidal rule or Simpson rule. What is time-dependent response? o Difference between elastic, viscous, and viscoelastic behavior o Difference between creep and stress relaxation o How the visco-elasticity can be modeled o Difference between Maxwell, Kelvin and Burges Models and their appropriateness for modeling creep and stress relaxation What are the Non-mechanical Properties? o What are density, unit weight, specific gravity, thermal expansion and contraction? o How they can be measured and estimated What are different types of surface characteristics’?