Solid Continua

3 credits · College of Engineering catalogue

Advisory Prerequisite: MECHENG 211 and MATH 450. Enforced Prerequisite: None. (3 credits) The general theory of a continuous medium. Kinematics of large motions and deformations; stress tensors; conservation of mass, momentum and energy; constitutive equations for elasticity, viscoelasticity and plasticity; applications to simple boundary value problems.