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&lt;strong&gt;Time:&lt;/strong&gt; Monday and Wednesday 3:00 - 4:30 pm
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&lt;strong&gt;Place:&lt;/strong&gt; WRW 312, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.utexas.edu&quot;&gt;University of Texas at Austin&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Instructor:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ae.utexas.edu/~ruihuang/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Rui Huang&lt;/a&gt;, WRW 117D, (512) 471-7558, &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:ruihuang@mail.utexas.edu&quot;&gt;ruihuang@mail.utexas.edu&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://imechanica.org/node/2621&quot;&gt;Lecture notes&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;  &lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://imechanica.org/node/2557&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Homework Sets&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://imechanica.org/taxonomy/term/551,32,528,194&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://imechanica.org/node/2913&quot;&gt;Term Papers&lt;/a&gt; (with links to abstracts, presentation slides and final reports)&amp;nbsp;
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&lt;strong&gt;Auxiliary notes&lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;J. W. Hutchinson, &lt;a href=&quot;http://imechanica.org/node/755&quot;&gt;Notes on Nonlinear Fracture Mechanics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;J. W. Hutchinson and Z. Suo, &lt;a href=&quot;http://imechanica.org/node/754&quot;&gt;ES 242r Fracture Mechanics of Thin Films and Composite Materials&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;J. W. Hutchinson and Z. Suo, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.deas.harvard.edu/suo/papers/17.pdf&quot;&gt;Mixed-Mode Cracking in Layered Materials&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;J. W. Hutchinson, &lt;a href=&quot;http://imechanica.org/node/903&quot;&gt;Fracture Mechanics of Thin Films and Multilayers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Z. Suo,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.deas.harvard.edu/suo/papers/139.pdf&quot;&gt; Reliability of interconnect structures&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Online resources&lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;Alan Zehnder, &lt;a href=&quot;http://imechanica.org/node/768&quot;&gt;Fracture Mechanics Book&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Piet Schreurs, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mate.tue.nl/%7Epiet/edu/frm/sht/bmsht.html&quot;&gt;Fracture Mechanics&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;C.H. Wang, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dsto.defence.gov.au/publications/1880/DSTO-GD-0103.pdf&quot;&gt;Introduction to Fracture Mechanics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Offline resources&lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;B. Lawn, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Fracture-Brittle-Solids-Cambridge-Science/dp/0521409721/sr=1-1/qid=1170385317/ref=sr_1_1/002-9179678-2688828?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=books&quot;&gt;Fracture of Brittle Solids&lt;/a&gt;, Cambridge University Press, 2004.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;H. Tada, P.C. Paris and G.R. Irwin, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.booknews.co.uk/Books/Book1628.html&quot;&gt;The Stress Analysis of Cracks Handbook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;,&lt;/em&gt; Del Research, St. Louis, MO., 1985.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;J.M. Barsom and S.T. Rolfe, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Fracture-Fatigue-Control-Structures-Applications/dp/075067315X/sr=1-1/qid=1170967420/ref=sr_1_1/002-7079745-4470456?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=books&quot;&gt;Fracture &amp;amp; Fatigue Control in Structures&lt;/a&gt;, 2nd ed. Prentice-Hall, 1987.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;L.B. Freund and S. Suresh, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Thin-Film-Materials-Formation-Evolution/dp/0521822815/sr=1-1/qid=1170385691/ref=sr_1_1/002-9179678-2688828?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=books&quot;&gt;Thin Film Materials&lt;/a&gt;, Cambridge University Press, 2003.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;S. Suresh, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Fatigue-Materials-Cambridge-Science-Second/dp/0521578477/sr=1-2/qid=1171212469/ref=sr_1_2/002-9179678-2688828?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=books&quot;&gt;Fatigue of Materials&lt;/a&gt;, Cambridge University Press, 2006&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;L.B. Freund, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Dynamic-Fracture-Mechanics-Cambridge-Monographs/dp/0521629225&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Dynamic Fracture Mechanics&lt;/a&gt; , Cambridge University Press, 1990.  &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;S.P. Timoshenko and J.N. Goodier, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Theory-Elasticity-Stephen-P-Timoshenko/dp/0070858055/sr=1-1/qid=1170386188/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-9179678-2688828?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=books&quot;&gt;Theory of Elasticity&lt;/a&gt;, McGraw-Hill, New York.&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Brief Outline of Topics &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics (LEFM).&lt;/strong&gt; Small scale yielding. Stress intensity factors. Energy release rate. Mixed mode fracture. Interface fracture.  
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Application I: fracture in thin films and layered materials.&lt;/strong&gt; Channel cracks. Interfacial delamination. Buckle-delamination.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fatigue and environmentally assisted cracking&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;courier new,courier&quot; size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nonlinear fracture mechanics. &lt;/strong&gt;J integrals. Cohesive zone modeling. Large scale yielding &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Application II: fracture of Composite materials.&lt;/strong&gt; Toughening. Matrix cracking. Crack bridging.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Introduction to computational fracture mechanics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Introduction to dynamic fracture&lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Remarks&lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;Prerequisite: a graduate course on solid mechanics.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;No textbook is required. Notes will be posted periodically.&lt;/li&gt;
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