Advanced Mechanics of Solids

Catalog description

Elasticity relations, linear elasticity assumptions, St. Venant's principle, transformation of stress, principal stresses in 3D, plane elasticity, Airy stress function, polynomial solutions, thermal stresses, relations in polar coordinates, point load solutions, stress concentration, axisymmetric problems, stresses in disks & cylinders, energy methods, Rayleigh Ritz, Buckling. Emphasis on advanced applications.