Engineering Mechanics Course|Civil Engineering

Lectures

1. Introduction and Galileo's problem
2. Dimensional analysis and atomic explosion
3. Dimensional analysis and application to engineering structures
4. Newton's laws of motion
5. Stress vector and stress tensor
6. Continuum model
7. Continuum model: geostatics example
8. Beam stress model
9. Beam model II
10. Strength models
11. Mohr stress plane and strength criteria
12. Soil mechanics example
13. Beam section strength model
14. Strength of beam structures
15. Review of stresses and strength
16. Deformation and strain tensor
17. Strain tensor (cont.)
18. Mohr circle in strain space
19. Beam deformation
20. Elasticity: energy approach
21. Continuum elasticity
22. Elasticity: properties
23. Elasticity solving methods
24. Beam elasticity I
25. Beam elasticity II
26. Beam elasticity III
27. Energy bounds
28. Energy bounds II
29. 1D energy methods
30. Generalization to 3D
31. Stress method for beam structures
32. Energy methods for beam structures
33. Euler buckling
34. Fracture mechanics I
35. Fracture mechanics II
36. Plastic collapse
37. Review and summary

Engineering Mechanics

Course Summary

This course is based on 1.050 Engineering Mechanics I, Fall 2007 made available by Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license.

This subject provides an introduction to the mechanics of materials and structures. 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 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. (No videos are available for this course but there is a good set of lecture material)

Reading Material

1. Engineering Mechanics, Vol. 1
C. Hartsuijker, J. W. Welleman, Engineering Mechanics Volume 1: Equilibrium, Springer, 2006, ISBN 1402041209, 9781402041204.

This is the first of two volumes introducing structural and continuum mechanics in a comprehensive and consistent way.
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2. Engineering Mechanics, Vol. 2
C. Hartsuijker, J. W. Welleman, Engineering Mechanics Volume 2: Stresses, Strains, Displacements, Springer, 2007, ISBN 1402041233, 9781402041235.

This is the second of two volumes introducing structural and continuum mechanics in a comprehensive and consistent way. Volume 2 covers stresses and strains in simple elements subjected to extension, bending, shear and torsion.
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3. Mechanics of solids and structures
Mechanics of solids and structures, by David W. A. Rees, published by Imperial College Press, 2000, ISBN 1860942180, 9781860942181
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Course Material

1. Variables and Concepts (Lectures 1-15)
(258 KB pdf file)
2. Variables and Concepts (Lectures 16-26)
(171 KB pdf file)
3. Variables and Concepts (Lectures 27-37)
(183 KB pdf file)

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