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Mechanics of Soft Materials: Lecture Notes
I finished the grad course on Mechanics of Soft Materials. It took 14 weeks with 2 academic hours per week and it covered the following topics: 1 Tensors 2 Kinematics 3 Balance laws 4 Isotropic elasticity 5 Anisotropic elasticity 6 Viscoelasticity 7 Chemo-mechanical coupling 8 Electro-mechanical coupling.
I attach the class notes and I will be grateful for the remarks, corrections, and criticism from iMechanicians.
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thanks for sharing the lecture notes
I skimmed over the notes and now I want to spend more time looking at them. The notes look very good. I think you have provided some really good examples. Thank you for sharing this with the imechanica community.
regards,
Louie
Nice job Kostia
Kostia:
Congratulations for this new course and many thanks for sharing your notes with us!
Dany
D. Rittel
merittel@technion.ac.il
www.technion.ac.il/~merittel
:-)
Thank you guys for your kind remarks
Nice concise set of notes
Hi Kosta,
Nice set of notes. I intend to pick some of the examples in hyperelasticity that you've discussed in your notes for my continuum mechanics students. Do you ask your students to write/ use any code(s) during the course?
~Shailendra
Hi
Shailendra, good to hear from you. No, I do not ask them to write a code. I am already happy
when they know to manipulate tensors.
I will also teach grad Continuum Mechanics next semester. It will be a similar
course with emphasis on plasticity, however.
-Kosta
To Kosta,shailendra and all
Julie
Hello Kosta and all,
I've a reasonable good knowledge of linear FE and have also been coding geometric non linear problems-Load control,Displacement control and Generalised displacement control.I've coded in MathCAD and have results!
Can you guide me on how to study continuum mechanics WITHOUT A TEACHER!
What will be the benefits of studying continuum mechanics?
What are the pre-requisites prior to a course on Contnuum mechanics?
updated
I updated the PDF correcting numerous typos