Associate Professor Thorsten Becker

Rm 315.1, Electrical & Mechanical Building

Position

• Director for the Centre of Materials Engineering

Qualifications

• PhD, UCT (2011)
• BSc (1st Class Honours), UCT (2005)

Professional Affiliations

• RAPDASA

Undergraduate Teaching    

• MEC3076F (Stress Analysis and Materials)
• MEC3078S (Mechanics of Machines)

Postgraduate Teaching    

• MEC4137Z (Microstructure and Phase Transformations of Metals)
• MEC4135Z 2023 (Experimental Techniques for Mechanical Testing)
• MEC4133Z (Engineering Performance of Materials)

Research Affiliations

• Centre for Materials Engineering

Publication Profile

• Google Scholar  

Research Interests

• Structural Integrity
• Fatigue and fracture
• Additive Manufacturing
• Digital Image and Volume Correlation