(MECHENG 512) Theory of Elasticity

3 credits · College of Engineering catalogue

Advisory Prerequisite: MECHENG 412 or MECHENG 511. Enforced Prerequisite: None. (3 credits) Stress, strain and displacement, equilibrium and compatibility. Use of airy stress function in rectangular and polar coordinates, asymptotic fields at discontinuities, forces and dislocations, contact and crack problems, rotating and accelerating bodies. Galerkin and Papcovich-Neuber solutions, singular solutions, spherical harmonics. Thermoelasticity. Axisymmetric contact and crack problem. Axisymmetric torsion.