Linear Elasticity

MAE 256A Linear Elasticity (Instructor: Prof.

Mal.

A.) (Same as Civil Engi­neering M230A.) Lecture, four hours; outside study, eight hours.

Requisite: course 156A or 166A.

Linear elastostatics.

Cartesian tensors; infinitesimal strain tensor; Cauchy stress tensor; strain energy; equilibri­um equations; linear constitutive relations; plane elastostatic problems, holes, corners, inclusions, cracks; three-dimensional problems of Kelvin, Bouss­inesq, and Cerruti.

Introduction to boundary integral equation method.