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ME6103J – Theory of Elasticity

Instructors:

Credits: 3

Pre-requisites: vm311 or vm412, or vm511 or vm 513 (or equivalent).

Description:

The topics covered are chosen with a view to modern research applications in fracture mechanics, composite materials, tribology and numerical methods. Thus, significant attention is given to crack and contact problems, problems involving interfaces between dissimilar media, thermoelasticity, singular asymptotic stress fields and three-dimensional problems.

Course Topics:

he main topics students will learn about are:

Stress, strain and displacement, equilibrium and compatibility. Use of airy stress function in rectangular and polar coordinates, asymptotic fields at discontinuities, forces and dislocations, contact and crack problems, rotating and accelerating bodies. Galerkin and Papcovich-Neuber solutions, singular solutions, spherical harmonics.

Thermoelasticity. Axisymmetric contact and crack problem. Axisymmetric torsion