This subject provides an introduction to the mechanics of materials and structures.
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This course includes
Hours of videos
916 years, 6 months
Units & Quizzes
33
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You will be introduced to and become familiar with all relevant physical properties and fundamental laws governing the behavior of materials and structures and you will learn how to solve a variety of problems of interest to civil and environmental engineers. While there will be a chance for you to put your mathematical skills obtained in 18.01, 18.02, and eventually 18.03 to use in this subject, the emphasis is on the physical understanding of why a material or structure behaves the way it does in the engineering design of materials and structures
Course Currilcum
- Introduction and Galileo’s problem Unlimited
- Dimensional analysis and atomic explosion Unlimited
- Dimensional analysis and application to engineering structures Unlimited
- Newton’s laws of motion: the fall of the World Trade Center towers Unlimited
- Stress vector and stress tensor Unlimited
- Continuum model: hydrostatics example Unlimited
- Continuum model: geostatics example Unlimited
- Beam stress model Unlimited
- Beam model II and summary Unlimited
- Strength models Unlimited
- Mohr stress plane and strength criteria Unlimited
- Soil mechanics example Unlimited
- Beam section strength model (M/N interactions) Unlimited
- Strength of beam structures Unlimited
- Review of stresses and strength Unlimited
- Deformation and strain tensor Unlimited
- Strain tensor (cont.) Unlimited
- Beam deformation Unlimited
- Elasticity: properties Unlimited
- Elasticity solving methods Unlimited
- Beam elasticity I Unlimited
- Beam elasticity II Unlimited
- Beam elasticity III Unlimited
- Energy bounds: 1D system (minimum potential energy) Unlimited
- Energy bounds: 1D system (minimum complementary energy) Unlimited
- 1D energy methods: examples and applications Unlimited
- Generalization to 3D Unlimited
- Stress method for beam structures Unlimited
- Energy methods for beam structures, example Unlimited
- How stuff fails: stability (Euler buckling) Unlimited
- Fracture mechanics I Unlimited
- Demonstration of buckling Unlimited
- Last lecture: review and summary Unlimited
