ME 5658 — Continuum Mechanics

4 semester hoursGraduateLectureusually offered: falltypical days: W/FBostonTraditional

Covers the stresses, strains, and displacements in general continuous media. Topics include vector and tensor calculus; definitions of stress, strain, and deformation; kinematics of a continuous medium; material derivatives; rate of deformation tensor, finite strain, and deformation; Eulerian and Lagrangian formulations; geometric measures of strain; relative deformation gradient, rotation, and stretch tensors; compatibility conditions; general principles; conservation of mass; momentum principles; energy balance; constitutive theories of materials (i.e., heat conduction, fluid mechanics, elastic solids, nonlinear elasticity, inelastic deformation of solids); variational principles; introduction to the nonlinear finite element formulations for solids, such as nonlinearities in solid mechanics, governing equations (strong form and weak form), finite element approximation, Newton-Raphson method, Lagrangian finite elements (total and updated Lagrangian approaches), and solution procedure.

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Offering history

TermSectionsEnrolledCapacityFullOpen seats/section
Fall 2023182138%13.0
Fall 2024192045%11.0
Spring 20261222588%3.0

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Share of recent sections by weekday: M 0% · T 0% · W 79% · Th 0% · F 77%

Common patterns: WF (56% of sections), W (23% of sections), F (21% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday

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