Building Design for Homeland Security
The following is a link to a FEMA course
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New graduate mechanics course at MIT: Mechanics of Heterogeneous Materials
16.223 Mechanics of Heterogeneous Materials
Course Description: Mechanical behavior of heterogeneous materials such as thin-film microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) materials and advanced filamentary composites, with particular emphasis on laminated structural configurations. Anisotropic and crystallographic elasticity formulations. Structure, properties and mechanics of constituents such as films, substrates, active materials, fibers, and matrices including nano- and micro-scale constituents. Effective properties from constituent properties. Classical laminated plate theory for modeling structural behavior including extrinsic and intrinsic strains and stresses such as environmental effects. Introduction to buckling of plates and nonlinear (deformations) plate theory. Other issues in modeling heterogeneous materials such as fracture/failure of laminated structures.
John Hutchinson's Notes on Nonlinear Fracture Mechanics (Pages Rotated)
Attached to this post are the notes John posted in his blog, with all pages rotated counterclockwise 90 degrees, for those who would like to read them on their computers.
Notes on Nonlinear Fracture Mechanics
These are the notes I wrote at the Technical University of Denmark in 1979. Zhigang Suo and I will be using these in the course on fracture and thin film mechanics (ES 242r) this spring (2007). This is a joint course with the University of Nebraska.
Engineering Sciences 242r: Fracture Mechanics of Thin Films and Composite Materials
Time. Thursday and Tuesday. 1:30-3:00 pm (Harvard University), 12:30-2:2:00 pm (University of Nebraska). First meeting: 1 February 2007
Place. Harvard University: Fairchild 102 (map). University of Nebraska: 111 Walter Scott Engineering Center
Course website (this page): node/754
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discontinuities in mesh free methods
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Hello,
I wish to ask where to find literature about introducing discontinuities in the shape functions to simulate cracks in mesh free methods.
I found the visibility criterion, the diffraction method and the transparency method referred in the (I think vey good) survey by Fries and Matthies "classification and overview of meshdree methods" but nothing else.
thank you,
project from solid mechanics
dear mechanicians,
i am student of btech 2nd year,mechanical from iit roorkee.i am looking forward for doing project work in solid mechanics.i know it's a vast topic and thats why i want your help in guiding me.i have not had this as a subject till now so i am confused about ani idea of project work.please give me some details as to where to start with.very thanks.
Introductory Biomechanics Courses
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In the early days of biomechanics, there probably were not many dedicated biomechanics courses and instead a regular mechanics curriculum was studied by people interested in tissues and biosystems. However, now that there are so many dedicated bioengineering programs at Universities throughout the world, it seems as though it is more likely that much of students' basic mechanics knowledge comes through dedicated biomechanics courses. This then in turn raises the interesting question of what is taught in these courses?