1. Introduction and overview
2. Bonding and crystallography, stress, strain, linear elasticity
3. Plasticity of metallic materials
4. Dislocations: Structure, stress, strain, strain energy
5. Dislocations: Motion and forces
6. Partial dislocations, dislocation interactions, jogs and kinks
7. Strengthening mechanisms
8. Introduction to modelling of materials behaviour, classification of
phenomena
9. Linear and nonlinear elasticity
10. Plasticity, tensile loading, cyclic loading
11. Viscoelasticity, effects of loading history, creep, relaxation
12. Viscoplasticity, overstress, rate sensitivity of metallic materials
13. Identification of material parameters

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