solid mechanics
ES 240 Project: Impact Strength of a Hand-Made Bashring
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Project Description:
ES 240 Project: Volvox Inversion Mechanics
The biology of the inversion process in Volvox carteri is examined, and a coupled mechanical and kinetic model is proposed. See attached proposal for details. The presentation given is also attached here, as well as the final paper. Also, a movie of the simulation that made all of the work wroth while, the inversion of a half-sphere, is attached here as well. Note: The file inversion2bw.doc is a movie, just download it and change the extension to .avi. This has to be done since iMechanica doesn't allow attachment of .avi files directly.
Computer Assignment #2
Computer assignment #2 : natural frequency problem
due on Monday (Nov. 17, 2008)
Assignment #1
Abaqus Tutorial
1 Schedule & Proceedings
2 Reading-about ABAQUS
3 Learning ABAQUS
4 CAE example
Mechanics of Materials by F.P. Beer, E.R. Russell Johnston Jr. and J.T. DeWolf
Mechanics of Materials is the book I used for my undergraduate course in strength of materials and it helped me understand the basics, and hence my selection.
The outline is as follows:
Ch. 1: Introduction - concepts of stress
Ch. 2: Stress and strain - axial loading
Ch. 3: Torsion
Ch. 4: Pure bending
Ch. 5: Analysis and design of beams for bending
Ch. 6: Shearing stresses in beams and thin-walled members
Ch. 7: Transformations of stress and strain
