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Citrine Tools for Materials Informatics
05 Dec 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Juan Carlos Verduzco Gastelum, Alejandro Strachan
Jupyter notebooks for sequential learning in the context of materials design. Run your own models, explore various methods and adapt the notebooks to your needs.
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DFT Results Explorer
17 Feb 2021 | | Contributor(s):: Saaketh Desai, Juan Carlos Verduzco Gastelum, Daniel Mejia, Alejandro Strachan
Use visualization tools to explore correlations in a DFT simulation results database
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Engineering Communication with Tinker Toys
29 Jun 2020 | | Contributor(s):: Amber Genau
This resource describes three variations on an engineering communication activity using Tinker Toys. In the main activity, small groups of students are given a bag of Tinker Toys and instructed to build anything they like. They are then asked to write down building instructions for...
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Exascale Co-design for Materials in Extreme Environments: Heterogeneous Algorithms for Heterogeneous Architectures
30 May 2012 | | Contributor(s):: Timothy C. Germann
Computational materials scientists have been among the earliest and heaviest users of leadership-class supercomputers. The codes and algorithms which have been developed span a wide range of physical scales and have been useful not only for gaining scientific insight, but also as testbeds for...
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GUI for the Surface Evolver - Polycrystalline Grain Growth
08 Aug 2018 | | Contributor(s):: Kevin K Ngo, Lucas Darby Robinson
This poster summarizes how the the online simulation tool, GUI for the Surface Evolver, was created as well as how it will impact research in polycrystalline grain growth. Polycrystalline grains have surface energies and tensions associated with them that cause grain boundaries to move...
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Materials Camp for High School Students
01 Jul 2020 | | Contributor(s):: Amber Genau
These activities were all developed for the Materials Camp program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), which began in 2011. The camp is a five-day, non-residential program designed to introduce mostly local 10th-12th grade students to the field of materials engineering and the...
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Materials Matching Mixer Activity
29 Jun 2020 | | Contributor(s):: Amber Genau
This materials-themed ice breaker activity is great for the first day of a camp program to get students thinking about basic material properties, as well as talking to each other and speaking out loud in front of the group. The name of a common engineering material (steel, rubber, concrete,...
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Materials Simulation Toolkit for Machine Learning (MAST-ML) tutorial
07 May 2021 | | Contributor(s):: Ryan Jacobs, BENJAMIN AFFLERBACH
Tutorial showing the many use cases for the MAST-ML package to build, evaluate and analyze machine learning models for materials applications.
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Model Rockets and Composite Materials: Design, Build, Launch
27 May 2021 | | Contributor(s):: Amber Genau
Students will gain experience with polymer matrix fiber composites, composite production, and the tradeoffs inherent in the engineering design process by designing, building and launching their own model rocket. Composite materials are created via hand layup and vacuum assisted resin...
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MSEN 201 Introduction to Materials Science & Engineering
13 Feb 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Patrick J Shamberger
Fundamental principles of materials science and engineering and their application toward complex engineering challenges; relationship between materials structure and structural and functional properties of engineered materials; property-performance relationships; principle classes of materials,...
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MSEN 201 Lecture 1.1: Atomic Structures - Orbital Filling
13 Feb 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Patrick J Shamberger
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MSEN 201 Lecture 1.2: Atomic Structures - Quantum Mechanics
13 Feb 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Patrick J Shamberger
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MSEN 201 Lecture 2.1: Bonding - Interatomic Force & Energy Curves
13 Feb 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Patrick J Shamberger
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MSEN 201 Lecture 2.2: Bonding - Atomic Bonding
13 Feb 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Patrick J Shamberger
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MSEN 201 Lecture 3.1: Crystalline Solids - Single Crystal, Polycrystalline, Amorphous
13 Feb 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Patrick J Shamberger
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MSEN 201 Lecture 3.2: Crystalline Solids - Crystallographic Points
13 Feb 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Patrick J Shamberger
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MSEN 201 Lecture 3.3: Crystalline Solids - Crystallographic Directions
13 Feb 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Patrick J Shamberger
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MSEN 201 Lecture 3.4: Crystalline Solids - Crystallographic Planes
13 Feb 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Patrick J Shamberger
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MSEN 201 Lecture 3.5: Crystalline Solids - Families of Directions, Planes
13 Feb 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Patrick J Shamberger
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Nanomaterial Mechanics Explorer
30 Jun 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Sam Reeve, Christopher Chow, Michael N Sakano, shuhui tang, Alexis Belessiotis, Mitchell Anthony Wood, Kiettipong Banlusan, Saaketh Desai, Alejandro Strachan
Simulate dislocation dynamics, crack propagation, nanowire tensile tests, and phase transitions