This course focuses on the practical applications of the continuum concept for deformation of solids and fluids, emphasizing force balance.
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777 years, 8 months
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Topics include stress tensor, infinitesimal and finite strain, and rotation tensors. Constitutive relations applicable to geological materials, including elastic, viscous, brittle, and plastic deformation are studied
Course Currilcum
- Course Overview Unlimited
- Tractions Unlimited
- Stress Tensor Unlimited
- Stress Tensor (cont.) Unlimited
- Stress Tensor in Different Coordinate Systems Unlimited
- Pore Fluid Pressure Unlimited
- Newton’s Second Law Unlimited
- Stress in the Earth Unlimited
- Stress Rotation Unlimited
- Sandbox Tectonics Unlimited
- Sandbox Tectonics – Simple Theory Unlimited
- Displacement Gradients Unlimited
- Measurement of Displacement Gradient Tensor Unlimited
- Finite Strain Unlimited
- Elasticity Unlimited
- Simple Example: Uniaxial Strain Unlimited
- Special Cases Unlimited
- Dislocation in Elastic Halfspace Model of the Earthquake Cycle Unlimited
- Stress and Strain from a Screw Dislocation Unlimited
- Plates Unlimited
- Plates (cont.) Unlimited
- Plates (cont.) Unlimited
- Plates Summary and Fluids Unlimited
- Fluids (cont.) Unlimited
- Navier Stokes Equation Unlimited
- Growth and Decay of Boundary Undulations Unlimited
- Flow in Porous Media Unlimited
- Time Dependent Porous Flow Unlimited
