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Material fracture at atomistic scale: bond breaking; material damage at microscale: the nucleation, propagation and interaction of dislocations, void formation, crack initiation and propagation; fracture mechanics and its application to material design and selection; experimental measurement of fracture toughness; mechanisms of fatigue crack nucleation and growth; fatigue crack growth models and their applications to material life prediction; creep micro-mechanisms and creep fatigue; non-destructive evaluation techniques; case studies.
