Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Prerequisites: M.Tech: CVL740; B.Tech: Instructor’s permission
Description
Overview of material behavior-elastic, plastic, viscoelastic, Viscoplastic response; Aging; Issues in representative volume element; Mechanical analogs for viscoelastic response; Fundamental viscoelastic response- creep compliance, relaxation, complex modulus; Interconversion techniques to obtain fundamental viscoelastic responses; Time- temperature superposition; linear viscoelastic constitutive equations; Elastic-viscoelastic correspondence principle; Predicting material behavior-undamaged, damaged state conditions, Introduction to nonlinear viscoelasticity, Viscoelastoplastic behavoir, fracture mechanics.