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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Engineering : Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

436-408 Advanced Mechanics of Solids

Credit Points:

7.1

Coordinator:

Assoc. Professor J.F. Williams

Prerequisite/s:

436-402 Mechanics and Dynamics of Solids

Timetable:

Semester 2

Contact:

32 hours of lectures and 7 hours of practice classes

Objectives:

Students completing this course should have a deeper understanding of the finite element method and fracture mechanics. Other specific topics for students will be selected from those listed under content.

Content:

Selection from: Numerical methods in stress analysis. Minimum total potential energy for a structure consisting of elements. Element and structure stiffness matrices. Changes of coordinates. Isoparametric elements. Storage of data and methods of solution. Non-linear fracture mechanics and fatigue - crack opening displacement, energy methods, J integral, R curve, fatigue mechanisms, low and high cycle fatigue, crack growth, life estimation, fatigue spectra. Other topics will be chosen from: Bending and buckling of plates and shells, Anisotropic elasticity and its application to composite materials, Viscoelasticity, state variable theory of plasticity and torsion.

Assessment:

A two-hour examination and assignments of a maximum of 5000 words or equivalent.
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