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Course unit, curriculum year 2024–2025
MSE.438

Advanced Composites, 5 cr

Tampere University
Teaching periods
Active in period 1 (1.8.2024–20.10.2024)
Active in period 3 (1.1.2025–2.3.2025)
Active in period 4 (3.3.2025–31.5.2025)
Course code
MSE.438
Language of instruction
English
Academic years
2024–2025, 2025–2026, 2026–2027
Level of study
Advanced studies
Grading scale
General scale, 0-5
Persons responsible
Responsible teacher:
Mikko Kanerva
Responsible teacher:
Jarno Jokinen
Responsible organisation
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences 100 %
Coordinating organisation
Materials Science Studies 100 %
Core content
  • Understands scientific thinking, reasoning and explanation
  • Evaluates and develops his/her information gathering
    processes
  • Stress-states in polymer composites
  • Thermo-mechanical loads: applied to systems
  • Finite element models of composite materials
  • Failure onset models
  • Gathers, processes, evaluates, analyses and uses information in a versatile, critical and ethical way
Complementary knowledge
  • Has mastered at least one foreign language at a level that allows him/her to follow the developments in the field and to work in an international environment
  • Durability in composites
  • Dynamic, transient analysis
  • Micromechanic models
  • Damage evolution
  • Delamination
  • Knows the risks associated with digital environments and takes them into account in his/her own actions
Specialist knowledge
  • Nonlinear material models
  • Fatigue loads
  • Interface modelling
  • Shell theory basics
Learning outcomes
Prerequisites
Learning material
Equivalences
Studies that include this course
Completion option 1
Exam, assignment project, lecture exam(s) per course instructions.
Completion of all options is required.

Participation in teaching

08.01.2025 05.05.2025
Active in period 3 (1.1.2025–2.3.2025)
Active in period 4 (3.3.2025–31.5.2025)

Exam

25.09.2024 25.09.2024
Active in period 1 (1.8.2024–20.10.2024)
09.05.2025 09.05.2025
Active in period 4 (3.3.2025–31.5.2025)