MAT SCI 243A · MSE 243AFracture of Structural Materials
Materials Science and Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Engineering and scientific aspects of crack nucleation, slow crack growth, and unstable fracture. Fracture mechanics, dislocation models, fatigue, fracture in reactive environments, alloy development, fracture-safe design.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 143A.
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MAT SCI 243A
- 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
1 direct requisite. Showing 11 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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