My name is Pawel and I am a Junior in Harvard College, studying Mechanical and Materials Science and Engineering.
The only course in solid mechanics I've taken so far is the Harvard's undergraduate intro course ES 120 - I guess it's similar to intro courses offered at other universities. Bits and pieces of solid mechanics also appeared in some other courses, but mostly in a very basic form.
Hi everyone, very glad to see you here. My name is Kejie Zhao, a first year phd student working in Prof.Zhigang Suo's group (www.seas.harvard.edu/suo). My concentration is solid mechanics with the same name of this course, it also signifies its importance to my future research. I graduate from Xi'an Jiaotong University in China before coming to Harvard. There I obtained my bachelor and master degree in Engineering Mechanics and Solid Mechanics respectively.
My name is Sung Hoon Kang and I am a second year graduate student of Applied Physics. I did my undergraduate study in Materials Sciene and Engineering at Seoul National University, Korea.
Updated on 11 October 2008. Each student creates a distinct project that (a) addresses a phenomenon, and (b) involves a serious use of ABAQUS. To get some inspiration, see projects of students who took this course in the past.
The project contributes 25% to the grade, distributed as follows.
34. Surface acoustic wave device
35. Approximate a rod as a 2DOF system
36. Soft tissues: large difference in velocities of longitudinal and transverse waves
37. A general approach to determine body waves
38. Reflection and refraction of a transverse wave
21. A fiber in an infinite matrix
22. Anti-plane shear
23. Saint-Venant's principle for orthotropic materials
24. Plane problems with no length scales
25. More scaling relations: a half space filled with a power-law material
This set of homework relies on a few elementary facts of the algebra of vectors and tensors.If you are vague about these facts, see some old notes I wrote when I taught ES 240 in 2006:node/205/revisions/1385/view
11. Positive-definite elastic energy density
12. The coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) is a second-rank tensor.
13. Hooke's law for anisotropic, linearly elastic solids
14. Invariants of a tensor
15. A "derivation" of the Mises (1913) yield criterion
6. Post an entry in iMechanica to explain to your teaching staff and classmates why you take this class.
7. Residual stress around an inclusion
8. Lame Solution in Cylindrical Shape
9. Stress Concentration around a Circular Hole
10. Back-of-Envelope Calculation
Update on 26 September 2008: An updated file on elements of linear elasticity is posted. You can still access the older version by clicking "revisions".
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