MAT SCI 143L · MSE 143LMechanical Behavior Laboratory
Materials Science and Engineering · 2 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Methods of characterizing mechanical behavior of various materials; elastic and plastic deformation, fracture toughness, fatigue, and creep.
Letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 90L, 143A (may be taken concurrently).
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
confidence 1.00 · from text- MAT SCI 90L
- MAT SCI 143Amay be taken concurrently
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MAT SCI 143L
- MAT SCI 90LPhysical Measurement in Materials Engineering
- MAT SCI 143AMechanical Behavior of Materials
- MAT SCI 104Science of Engineering Materials
- CHEM 20AChemical Structure
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields2 more beneath
- MECH&AE 101Statics and Strength of Materials
- MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
2 direct requisites. Showing 12 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.