Part 1 (compulsory): Prof. Adrian Sutton
16 one-hour lectures and 4 rapid feedback sessions in Term 1
- Structural versus functional materials
- Defects in crystals
- The geometry of the elastic field
- The equilibrium condition for the stress field and body forces
- The misfitting sphere as a model of point defects
- The elastic Green's function
- Application of the elastic Green's function to point defects with non-spherical symmetry, and connection with atomistic simulation
- The nature of plastic deformation of crystals
- Application of the elastic Green's function to dislocations