Tip-loaded cantilever beam, excerpted from lecture 2. (Image courtesy of David Parks.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. David Parks
Prof. Lallit Anand
MIT Course Number
2.002
As Taught In
Spring 2004
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course provides Mechanical Engineering students with an awareness of various responses exhibited by solid engineering materials when subjected to mechanical and thermal loadings; an introduction to the physical mechanisms associated with design-limiting behavior of engineering materials, especially stiffness, strength, toughness, and durability; an understanding of basic mechanical properties of engineering materials, testing procedures used to quantify these properties, and ways in which these properties characterize material response; quantitative skills to deal with materials-limiting problems in engineering design; and a basis for materials selection in mechanical design.