Just back from Prof. Mahir Hussein's seminar. He is really one of best physicist I have ever met. In past 30 years, he published more than 200 papers in the field of nuclear resonance, laser accelerated particles etc. There are more than 30 papers published in PRL alone. When input his name " M.Hussein" in arXiv.org, you can easily found 95 papers by him.
My undergraduate and master major is engineer mechanics. I have took several courses about this field, like theory of elasticity and mechanics of materials. But my major during master degree is plant bio-mechanics, especially the role of water surface tension and water transport. So I deeply feel that I need to learn solid mechanics again. That is why I choose this course.
Part 1 of Plane Elasticity notes. Please see attached.
We professors usually start our jobs unprepared. In our days as students, we are considered talented if we can solve problems posed by our professors. We might be even considered brilliant if we can solve them quickly and make a few extensions. After solving a few such problems, we write a thesis. We are then entrusted with a job as a professor. We soon realize that the skill of solving problems posed by others only plays a minor role in our jobs.
Dear BEM experts:
I am trying to find a boundary element solution for the problem of a cavity in an infinte space. The boundary condition is such that the cavity boundary is subjected to a constant radial influx. I have used the standard fundamental solution for the interior case (finite domain). The results, I obtained for the potential were reasonable for points inside the exterior region. However, on the boundary, the results for the potential were in the order of 10^12 (instead of zero value)!! Any idea what went wrong. Thanks. Husain
Dear BEM experts:
I am trying to find a boundary element solution for the problem of a cavity in an infinte space. The boundary condition is such that the cavity boundary is subjected to a constant radial influx. I have used the standard fundamental solution for the interior case (finite domain). The results, I obtained for the potential were reasonable for points inside the exterior region. However, on the boundary, the results for the potential were in the order of 10^12 (instead of zero value)!!
Any idea what went wrong. Thanks.
Husain
I have got the master degree of Solid Mechanics in University of Science and Technology of China. Actually, I have taken several courses related to this subject, such as strength of materials and the theory of elasticity. So, my strength may be that I have some knowledge about it, but my poor ability to solve PDE or even ODE could be the specific obstacle for studying this course. I will do research in Suo’s group(http://www.seas.harvard.edu/suo/), and my research may be related to soft matters, such as gels.
Can anybody tell whether there is any closed form solution for Green's function in an anisotropic material? If yes it would be great if you share some of the literatures on this topic.
Part 4 of Elements of Elasticity. Please see attached.
