Calendar

SES # TOPICS KEY DATES
1 Introduction and Galileo's problem
2 Dimensional analysis and atomic explosion
3 Dimensional analysis and application to engineering structures
4 Newton's laws of motion: the fall of the World Trade Center towers Assignment 1 due
5 Stress vector and stress tensor
6 Continuum model: hydrostatics example
7 Continuum model: geostatics example Assignment 2 due
8 Beam stress model
9 Beam model II and summary Assignment 3 due
10 Strength models
11 Mohr stress plane and strength criteria
12 Soil mechanics example Assignment 4 due
13 Beam section strength model (M/N interactions)
14 Strength of beam structures Assignment 5 due
15 Review of stresses and strength
16 Deformation and strain tensor
Quiz 1: dimensional analysis, stresses and strength
17 Strain tensor (cont.)
18 Mohr circle in strain space
19 Beam deformation Assignment 6 due
20 Elasticity: energy approach
21 Continuum elasticity
22 Elasticity: properties Assignment 7 due
23 Elasticity solving methods
24 Beam elasticity I
25 Beam elasticity II Assignment 8 due
26 Beam elasticity III
27 Energy bounds: 1D system (minimum potential energy) Assignment 9 due
28 Energy bounds: 1D system (minimum complementary energy)
Quiz 2: elasticity and beam mechanics
29 1D energy methods: examples and applications
30 Generalization to 3D
31 Stress method for beam structures
32 Energy methods for beam structures, example Assignment 10 due
33 How stuff fails: stability (Euler buckling)
34 Fracture mechanics I
35 Fracture mechanics II Assignment 11 due
36 Plastic collapse
37 Last lecture: review and summary