Teaching at UTSA

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  • Machine Element Design (ME 3823, 2020 Fall)

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  • Introduction to mechanical design

  • materials selection

  • stress analysis

  • deformation analysis

  • static and fatigue theories of failure

  • design of gears, shafts, bearings, mechanical springs, welded and bolted connections.

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  • Mechanics of Solids (ME 3813, recently taught in 2020 Spring)

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  • Axially loaded members

  • Stress and strain

  • Safety factor and allowable load

  • Torsion of bars

  • Beam shear and bending moment diagrams

  • Beam stress and deflections

  • Statically indeterminant structures

  • Pressure vessels

  • Buckling of columns

  • Stress transformations, principal stresses 

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  • Computational Materials (ME 6973, recently taught in 2019 Spring)

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  • Lattice and crystal structures

  • Quantum mechanics of materials

  • Empirical atomistic models of materials

  • Molecular statics

  • Classical equilibrium statistical mechanics

  • Molecular dynamics

  • Machine learning method