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TAM 451
Intermediate Solid Mechanics

Credit:  4 hours.


(T A M 321) Analysis of stress and strain (definitions, transformation of axes, equilibrium equations and symmetry of the stress tensor); linear materials, Hooke's law; strain energy, potential energy, energy principles and methods; two-dimensional problems in elasticity (torsion, axisymmetric problems); the finite-element method for two- and three-dimensional boundary-value problems in linear elasticity; plasticity (introduction, yield criteria, elastic-plastic behavior, limit-load calculations); linear-elastic fracture mechanics (introduction, Griffith's approach, stress intensity factor, energy release rate) Prerequisite: TAM 251 and MATH 380.