Explore the material world

ME 382 – Mechanics of Materials interactive demos

Explore core ideas in materials and mechanics through hands-on visual demonstrations. Choose a demo to investigate the structure, change the view, and see how the mathematics connects.

Interactive demos

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Crystal structures · Interactive visualization

Crystal structures & planes

Explore simple cubic, BCC, FCC, HCP, and diamond structures. Rotate the unit cell, reveal crystallographic planes, and work through radius and packing derivations.

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Defects in crystals · Interactive visualization

Edge dislocation glide

Advance an edge dislocation through a 2D triangular lattice. Follow its core, glide plane, extra half-plane, and Burgers vector one lattice spacing at a time.

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This collection is being developed for ME 382. More interactive demonstrations will be added as they are ready.