MCS

Materials Structure Mechanics

Performance of materials is often based on understanding the behavior at several scales, requiring, for example, the mechanics of dislocations and other imperfections, grain boundaries, interfaces, and material heterogeneity. The complete theory began with the consideration of the behavior of one and two-dimensional members of structures, whose states of stress can be approximated as two dimensional, and was then generalized to three dimensions to develop a complete theory of the elastic and plastic behavior of materials.