Teaching

As coordinator/lecturer

Advanced Processing for Complex Materials (master)

(2023–24, 2024–25)

In this course, students learn about the constitutive laws for various materials, such as metals, and how to process them. Among the general techniques that will be discussed, the focus will be on a metal-forming demonstrator process. During the course, students visit at least one factory to see real-world industrial production lines.

At the end of the course, the student is able to:

• explain the differences in the materials used in industrial production, with a focus on metals

• select materials based on technical specifications for product function

• select and design constitutive laws to appropriately define the material's behavior

• design and select processes for products or product parts

• optimize a process related to function, design, and price

Mechanics for IEM (bachelor)

(2021–22)

The general aim of the course is to give an introduction to the terms and methods used in elementary statics and strength of materials, a rigorous treatment of the mechanical relations that govern the primary loading situations in the field of mechanical and civil engineering (uniaxial tension, bending, torsion and buckling) and to solve simple and statically indeterminate boundary value problems.

• The subjects covered in statics are force vectors, force equilibrium, force resultants, equilibrium of a rigid body, analysis of trusses, internal forces, and friction, and

• the subjects covered in the strength of materials are stress, strain, mechanical properties, axial load, torsion, bending, superposition principle, stress and strain transformations, and buckling. This course gives students an understanding of the stability, stiffness, and strength of mechanical constructions.

Upon completion of the course, the student is able to:

• draw free-body diagrams of structures as a whole and subsections of structures.

• relate applied forces and moments to displacements and rotations.

• calculate the internal forces of rigid and supported constructions at their static equilibrium state.

• calculate displacements of deformable members in statically indeterminate boundary value problems that involve the constitutive relations of the material.

Simulation of Nanoscale Materials Using Molecular Dynamics (masterclass)

(2011: I gave this 6-hour masterclass at the 10th National Student Congress of Iranian Materials Science and Engineering, Shiraz, Iran.)

This masterclass provides an in-depth understanding of the molecular dynamics (MD) simulation technique for studying various mechanical behavior and physical properties and relevant phenomena of materials at the atomic scale.

At the end of this class, the student is able to:

• Understand the core principles and mathematical frameworks underlying MD

• Master the process of setting up MD simulations, by

  1. defining initial conditions, atomic interactions, and force fields, and

  2. selecting appropriate time steps and simulation parameters.

• Analyze the mechanical behavior of materials at the atomic level

• Explore the physical properties of materials, such as thermal properties

• Investigate material phenomena by exploring phenomena observable at the atomic level, such as diffusion and phase transitions.

• Apply MD simulations to real-world material problems

• Understand the limitations and challenges of MD simulations

As teaching assistant/grader

• "Finite element modelling for advanced processing" (University of Groningen, 2020)

• "Multiscale Contact Mechanics and Tribology" (University of Groningen, 2015–2020)

• "Transport Phenomena" & "Mechanical Properties of Materials II" (Shiraz University, 2006–2008)