Spring 2007, Tuesday and Thursday 10:00 am - 11:30 am. First meeting of the class: 1 February 2007.
Place: Maxwell Dworkin Room G-135

• Instructor: Zhigang Suo, 617-495-3789, suo@deas.harvard.edu, Pierce Hall 309. Skype: zhigangsuo
• Office hour: Monday 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm.
• No textbook is required. The McKay Library keeps some textbooks reserved.

Tentative topics

• Elements of thermodynamics: Isolated systems, Temperature, Boltzmann distribution, pressure, electric potential, chemical potential.
• Deformation and polarization
• Poroelasticity, or diffusion in elastic solids
• Complex variable methods
• Instabilities
• Plates
• Surface energy and surface stress
• Configurational forces
• Contact problems
• Inclusion problems

Homework

Final Examination 

Remarks

• Prerequisite: ES 240 Solid Mechanics or equivalent.
• Notes will be posted periodically. These notes are mainly written to clarify and focus my own thoughts, and are not self-contained. As such, the notes may present a distorted view of the subject and of the course.
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Online resources

• Rohan Abeyaratne, Lecture notes on the mechanics of elastic solids.
• James R. Rice, Items developed for teaching.
• Zhigang Suo, ES 240 Solid Mechanics.