12.005
Applications of Continuum Mechanics to Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Spring 2006
Topics
- Course Overview
- Tractions
- Stress Tensor
- Stress Tensor (cont.)
- Stress Tensor in Different Coordinate Systems
- Pore Fluid Pressure
- Newton’s Second Law
- Stress in the Earth
- Stress Rotation
- Sandbox Tectonics
- Sandbox Tectonics - Simple Theory
- Displacement Gradients
- Measurement of Displacement Gradient Tensor
- Finite Strain
- Elasticity
- Simple Example: Uniaxial Strain
- Special Cases
- Dislocation in Elastic Halfspace Model of the Earthquake Cycle
- Stress and Strain from a Screw Dislocation
- Plates
- Plates (cont.)
- Plates Summary and Fluids
- Fluids (cont.)
- Navier Stokes Equation
- Growth and Decay of Boundary Undulations
- Flow in Porous Media
- Time Dependent Porous Flow
Readings
- Schubert, G., D. L. Turcotte, and J. Schubert. Geodynamics . Cambridge, MA; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780521666244.
- Middleton, G. V., and P. R. Wilcock. Mechanics in the Earth and Environmental Sciences . Cambridge, MA; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780521446693.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.