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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mechanics of Deformable Structures: Part 2

Massachusetts Institute of Technology via MITx Online

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Gain essential skills in strength of materials and structural analysis. Learn how to analyze multi-axial states of stress and strain, apply objective failure criteria, and predict linear elastic structural behavior using energy methods.

Syllabus

  • Hooke’s law for isotropic linear elastic materials and homogeneous problems in linear elasticity. Pressure vessels. Superposition of loading conditions.
  • Traction on a face. Stress transformation. Principal stress components. Stress and strain invariants. Tresca and Mises yield criteria.
  • Elastic strain energy. Castigliano methods. Potential energy formulations. Approximate solutions and the Rayleigh Ritz method

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David Parks and Simona Socrate

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