Advanced mechanics of materials

Welcome to this learning project about Advanced Mechanics of Materials!

Learning Project Summary

 * Project code:
 * Suggested Prerequisites:
 * Mechanics of materials
 * Time investment: 3 months
 * Assessment suggestions:
 * Portal:Engineering and Technology
 * School:Engineering
 * Department:Mechanical Engineering
 * Stream:Applied Mechanics
 * Level: First year graduate

This course is being taught in Spring 2011. This website is under construction.

Content summary
This is a graduate-level course on advanced mechanics of materials.

Goals
This learning project aims to.
 * provide the mathematical foundations of mechanics of materials.

Syllabus and Learning Materials

 * 1) Mechanics of Materials
 * 2) Deformation measures
 * 3) Motion, displacement, velocity, acceleration
 * 4) Strains and deformations
 * 5) Polar decomposition
 * 6) Spectral decompositions of kinematic quantities
 * 7) Volume change and area change
 * 8) Time derivatives and rate quantities
 * 9) Objectivity of kinematic quantities
 * 10) Stress measures
 * 11) Stress measures
 * 12) Deviatoric and volumetric stress
 * 13) Objective stress rates
 * 14)  Balance laws and entropy inequality
 * 15) Constitutive relations
 * 16) Cauchy elastic materials

Assignments

 * Homework 1 Problem set
 * Solutions
 * Homework 2 Problem set
 * Solutions
 * Homework 3 Problem set
 * Solutions
 * Homework 4 Problem set
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 * Homework 5 Problem set
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 * Homework 6 Problem set
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Tests and Quizzes

 * Quiz 1
 * Solutions