Fall 2007

Part 2 of Plane Elasticity notes. Please see attached.

This Problem Set is due on Friday, Oct. 26. 

INTRODUCTION TO TENSOR CALCULUS and CONTINUUM MECHANICS

John H. Heinbockel

Very clear treatment on tensors and vector calculus, also free online!

http://www.math.odu.edu/~jhh/counter2.html

Amazon Review

Chapters:

Despite the title, the book covers very little specifically on geology.  It works through stress, strain, and other tensor quantities, but assumes you know little about the math.  Fully worked problems make up the bulk of the book following a few introcutory chapters.  I've found it a nice review of the math, but haven't fully explored the solution sections.  I got the book from Cabot Science Library here at Harvard. I wouldn't recommend buying it on amazon it's not worth the $72, but it is a nice addition to Timoshenko's theory of elasticity.

• Amazon.com reviews 
• Content (by chapter):
• Stress
• Strain
• Mechanical Properties of Materials
• Axial Load
• Torsion
• Bending
• Transverse Shear
• Combined  Loadings
• Stress Transformation
• Strain Transformation
• Design of Beams and Shafts
• Deflections of Beams and Shafts
• Buckling of Columns
• Energy Methods

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.

This problem set is due on Friday, Oct. 19

Part 1 of Plane Elasticity notes. Please see attached.

Prior courses in solid mechanics : None.

Undergraduate major: Computational Mathematics

My strength related to this course: familiar with linear algebra and mulitivariables calculus

My weakness related to this course: poor intuition for mechanics models

Research group: Prof. Radovitzky's computational solid mechancis group at MIT

http://web.mit.edu/aeroastro/people/radovitzky/

Solid mechanics was at the top of my course list because of my interest in
strength of

materials. Prior courses in solid mechanics include undergraduate mechanics of

materials and an introduction to solid mechanics course. Mechanical engineering

was my undergraduate major. My main weakness related to this course is the

ability to take a real world problem, which is not spelled out and correctly

apply the theories learned in the course. My primary strength related to this