Model of the mechanical behavior of materials. (Image by Dr. Markus Buehler.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Markus Buehler
MIT Course Number
1.978
As Taught In
January IAP 2007
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Highlights
This course is offered during the Independent Activities Period (IAP), which is a special 4-week term at MIT that runs from the first week of January until the end of the month.
Course Description
The objective of this course is to introduce large-scale atomistic modeling techniques and highlight its importance for solving problems in modern engineering sciences. We demonstrate how atomistic modeling can be used to understand how materials fail under extreme loading, involving unfolding of proteins and propagation of cracks.
This course was featured in an MIT Tech Talk article.
