Offered Every Fall
| Credit Hours: | 3-0-3 | |
| Prerequisites: | Knowledge of strength of materials and differential equations is required to take the class. Knowledge of continuum mechanics is strongly recommended. | |
| Catalog Description: | Governing equations of linear elasticity, plane elasticity, boundary value problems, Airy stress function and complex variable methods, simple three dimensional solutions. Crosslisted with AE 6769. | |
| Textbooks: | Jacqueline R. Barber, Elasticity, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992. | |
| Instructors: | Iwona Jasiuk (ME), Chris Lynch (ME), Richard Neu (ME), Jianmin Qu (ME), Min Zhou (ME), Sathyanaraya Hanagud (AE) | |
| References: | A.P. Boresi and K.P. Chong, Elasticity in Engineering Mechanics, Elsevier, 1987. A.E. Green and W. Zerna, Theoretical Elasticity, 1968. R.W. Little, Elasticity,1973. A.E.H. Love, A Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of Elasticity, 1944. N. Muskhelishvili, Some Basic Problems of the Mathematical Theory of Elasticity, 1953. I.S. Sokolnikoff, Mathematical Theory of Elasticity. |
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| Audience: | First year graduate students in ME, AE, CE, and MSE. | |
| Goals: | This class will introduce governing equations of linear elasticity and will focus on solutions of boundary value problems in both two and three dimensions using several different methods. | |
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