AM 6070 - Theory of Elasticity

Effective Date 08/01/2010
Reviews concepts/stress, strain, equilibrium, compatibility; Hooke’s law;displacement & stress formulations of elasticity problems;plane stress and strain problems in rectangular coordinates;Airy’s stress function; plane stress and strain problems in polar coordinates,axisymmetric problems;torsion of prismatic bars (semi-inverse method using real functions);thermal stress;energy methods.Pre-requisites:CE 6720, AM/MAE 6020,or instructor permission

Credits: 3
Grading Basis Graded