Tensile Response of Materials
The modules in this section will outline some of the basic concepts of
materials mechanical response by restricting the geometry to a case of
simple uniaxial tension. Many of the atomistic and mechanistic
concepts in our materials-oriented approach to solid mechanics can be
introduced in this way, without the mathematical and conceptual
complications that more realistic gemoetries entail. Subsequent
modules will extend these concepts to geometrically more complicated
situations, and introduce gradually the mathematical language used by
the literature of the field to describe them.