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Graduate Record 2024-2025 
    
Graduate Record 2024-2025

CE 6700 - Energy Principles in Mechanics


Effective Date 08/01/2023
Introduction to calculus of variations. Derivation and application of the principles of virtual work and complementary virtual work. The principles of stationary total potential energy and complementary energy, Castigiliano’s Theorems. Introduction to mixed and hybrid principles. Variational approximation methods. Hamilton’s principle, Lagrange’s equations of motion. Corequisite: CE 6720 or equivalent. Taught concurrently w/ AM 6200 and MAE 6200

Credits: 3
Grading Basis Graded