Materials and Structures Fall 2008 Professor Paul A. Lagace Room 33-310 phone: 617-253-3628 pal@mit.edu

Learning Objectives and Outcomes

Syllabus (planned version)

Textbooks:

Crandall, Dahl and Lardner, An Introduction to the Mechanics of Solids, SI version, McGraw-Hill, 1978
      (Referrred to as CDL).
M. F. Ashby and D. R. H. Jones, Engineering Materials 1, Pergamon Press, 1980 (or later version).
      (Referred to as A&J)

The following books are also useful references:

M. F. Ashby and D. R. H. Jones, Engineering Materials 2, Pergamon Press, 1986 (or later version).
      (Polymers, metal alloys)
M. F. Ashby, Materials Selection in Mechanical Design, Pergamon Press, 1992 (or later version)
      (Materials selection and design)
Bickford, Mechanics of Solids, Irwin, 1993