last modified: 02/03/2006

Course code: wb1451-5

Course name: Engineering Mechanics Fundamentals

This concerns a Course

In the program of  MSc ME

EC (European Credits): 4 (1 EC concerns a work load of 28 hours)

Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering

Department of Precision and Microsystems Engineering

Lecturer 1: Prof. Daniel J. Rixen

Tel.:  015 - 27 81523 / 86515

Lecturer 2: Prof. Fred v. Keulen

Lecturer 3: Prof. L. Ernst

Catalog data:

     

Course year:

MSc 1st year

Course language:

English

 

In case of Dutch: Please contact the lecturer about an English alternative, whenever needed.

Semester:

2A / 2B

Hours per week:

2

Other hours:

 

Assessment:

Oral exam

Assessment period:

2B / August

(see academic calendar)

 

Prerequisites (course codes):

a basic knowledge of engineering mechanics is required (see mechanics and dynamics courses from BSc engineering mechanics)

Follow up (course codes):

-

Detailed description of topics:

In this course the students will be given the basic knowhow to formulate the equations describing the mechanical behavior of continuum media and learn the theory underlying the elastic behavior of solids. The course will also cover the concepts of energies and variational analysis relevant to mechanical analysis. Two-dimensional and three dimensional classical problems will be handled. Also the theory of plates and shells will be outlined.

Course material:

  • lecture notes specifcally designed for the course and available through blackboard

References from literature:

  • Fung, Y.C., Foundations of Solid Mechanics, Prentice-Hall, 1965.
  • M.E. Gurtin, An Introduction to Continuum Mechanics, Mathematics in Science and Engineering, vol. 158, Academic Press, New York, 1982.
  • R.W. Ogden, Nonlinear elastic deformations, Ellis Horwood Ltd., 1984

Remarks assessment, entry requirements, etc.:

-

Learning goals:

The student must be able to:

  1. formulate in a proper way the deformations in contiuum media (small and finite deformations), including the relation between different strain and stress tensors

  2. describe the relations between Lagrangian/Eulerian representation

  3. write, in solid mechanics, the constitutive laws of elastic materials

  4. use variational energy principles and apply them to derive approximation techniques

  5. describe the special formulations relative to plates and shells

Computer use:

-

Laboratory project(s):

None

Design content:

No direct design content