solid mechanics
ES 240 (Fall 2007) Lecture Notes - Elements of Elasticity
The lecture notes are prepared by Prof. Joost Vlassak based on a set of course notes put together by Prof. Suo when he taught ES 240 in 2006, as well as on course notes developed by Prof. Vlassak for ES 246.
Please see attached.
Solid Mechanics Professorship at Imperial College London
Professorship in the Mechanics of Materials Division
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Imperial College London
Imperial College is one of Europe's leading teaching and research institutions and the Department of Mechanical Engineering had the highest possible rating in the last Research Assessment Exercise.
Why not use FDM in solid mechanics?
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Finite Difference Method (FDM) and the related techniques such as FVM, are often found put to great use in fluid mechanics. See any simulation showing not only streamlines but also vortex shedding, turbulent mixing, etc.
UG Course on Solid Mechanics
Given below is a sequence that might properly address the question of what to teach in the first (and the only) UG couse on strength of materials or solid mechanics.
0. Note: It's a mistake to believe that the contents for such a course can be covered in a linear fashion. Apply the spiral theory of knowledge and revisit certain concepts again and again: e.g., the concepts of stress, strain, fields, BV problems, theoretical structure, etc.
1. Introduction:
IINTERMEDIATE MECHANICS OF MATERIALS
J.R.BARBER: INTERMEDIATE MECHANICS OF MATERIALS
Many of you may know my book on Elasticity, but may not be aware that I also wrote an undergraduate book on Intermediate Mechanics of Materials (Published by McGraw-Hill - ISBN 0-07-232519-4). This picks up from the typical elementary Mechanics of Materials course and deals with the next range of topics such as energy methods, elastic-plastic bending, bending of axisymmetric cylindrical shells and axisymmetric thick-walled cylinders. A full Table of Contents and the Preface are given below.
Final Exam: ES 240 Solid Mechanics
Notes for students who are preparing for the final.
- Time: 9:15 am, Thursday, 18 January 2006. Place: Sever Hall 206. No notes or books. Calculators are allowed.
- There will be 3 hours and 5 problems.
- Exam problems will mostly draw upon homework and parts of the lecture notes covered in class. The exam intends to test your understanding of the material covered in the course, not your creativity.
- For the last two topics covered in class, finite deformation and strings and elastica, there was no homework, but some exercises are scattered in the notes. They may appear in the final.
- For equations, you will need to memorize the most basic ones, such as equilibrium equations, Hooke's law, and strain-displacement relations. But for anything that you cannot remember, you should be able to derive.
Grade distribution
String and Elastica
Notes are attached. Return to the outline of the course.
THE MOST CITED SCIENTIFIC PAPERS IN SOLID AND COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS
I posted this survey in Applied Mechanics Research and Researchers on 16 April 2006, based on a survey of Web of Science. A paper making the list satisfied the following conditions:
- It is in the areas of solid mechanics, mechanics of materials, or computational mechanics, and
- It has at least 1000 citations.
This list may not be complete. If anyone finds a missing entry, please leave a comment below.
The cited number has been updated up to 18 Dec. 2006.