NE 330 - Material Failure
- Credit Hours: 3R-3L-4C
- Term Available: W
- Graduate Studies Eligible: No
- Prerequisites: PH 112
- Corequisites: None
Principles of material failure; appearance, physical cause and mathematical description with emphasis on the materials used for micro-scale devices and assemblies. Failure types considered include Rupture, Fatigue, Creep, Corrosion, Electromigration, Electrical Overstress, Electrical Discharge and Thermal. Experiments illustrate the failure type and the machines used to study them. These include Electron, Optical and X-ray microscopes, Spectroscopy and Tension machines. A brief description of the working of each machine will be given.