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| Investigating the creep, fatigue and fracture of advanced metals, intermetallics and ceramics |
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Group Members
- Robert O. Ritchie, Ph.D., Sc.D. , Professor, U.C. Berkeley
- Holly Barth,
M.S.
- Aaron Kueck, Ph.D
- Joseph
Lemberg, M.S.
- Sophi Martin, M.S.
- Amanda Runciman, M.S.
- Luling Sun
- David Xu
- Elizabeth
Zimmermann, M.S.
- Joel W. Ager III, Ph.D., staff scientist
- Daan Hein Alsem, Ph.D., post-doc
- Maximilien Launey, Ph.D., post-doc
Graduating This Semester
Former Group Members
Active Research Programs
- Fatigue and Fracture of Mineralized Biological Tissue
- Fatigue and Fracture of SiC at High Temperatures
- Fatigue
and Fracture of Biomedical Materials
- Fatigue and Wear of Silicon Structural Films
- Fracture and Fatigue of Mo-Si-B High Temperature Alloys
- Grain Boundary Engineering in Promoting High-Cycle Fatigue Resistance
- Mechanisms of Fatigue and Fracture of Metal/Ceramic Interfaces
- NiTi Shape Memory Alloys for Biomedical Applications
- Toughness
in brittle materials: atomic-resolution studies of fracture in SiC
Archived Research
- Mechanical Properties of CVD Diamond Films
- Mechanical Properties of Bulk Metallic Glasses
- MURI on the High-Cycle Fatigue of Titanium and Nickel Superalloys
- Gamma-Based TiAl Intermetallics
- Fatigue and Fracture of Intermetallic Laminate Composites
- Statistical Fracture Modeling of Brittle Functionally Graded Materials
- Fatigue and Fracture Behavior of Titanium Silicon Carbides
- Experimental Assessment of Strain Gradient Plasticity Theories
- Reports of Current Research on Wear
Highlights
- A
Tough Pearl to Crack: Artificial Ceramic Mimics Mechanical Properties
of Mother of Pearl
- Bone
is Tough Where it Matters
- Understanding
the Mechanisms of Human Bone (Text
or Audio)
- Bone
Quality May Have More to Do with Fracture Risk than Bone Quantity (Text
or Audio)
- New
Insight into Why the Elderly Suffer More Fractures (Text
or Audio)
- Why
Older People Suffer More Bone Fractures
- Atomic-Scale
Studies of Ceramic Grain Boundaries
- A Conveyor Belt for the Nano-Age
- Atomic
Clues for Tougher Ceramics
- Synchrotron Mesodiffraction: A Tool for Understanding Turbine Engine Foreign Object Damage
Journal Covers
Education Outreach
Opinion
Teaching
- Fall 2008: C MSE-113/C-ME124,
Mechanical Behavior of Engineering Materials - Prof. Ritchie
Links
- Materials Sciences Division , Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering , UC Berkeley
- Department of Mechanical Engineering , UC Berkeley
- Materials Research Society (MRS)
- American Ceramics Society (ACerS)
- The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS)
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
- ASM International
- MTS Systems Co. & Instron Co.