Tel Aviv University
Faculty of Engineering

Theory of Elasticity

0540.5400

Semester A, 2021-22

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Class Tuesday, 15-18

Instructor Isaac Harari

office: Wolfson 225, (640-)9439
hours: Tuesday, 14-15 (or by appointment)
e-mail: harari AT tauex.tau.ac.il

Topics Background: mathematical preliminaries

(indicial notation, read Chap. 2A in Lai, solve exercises).
Kinematics: finite deformation, strain, principal strain, compatibility.
Balance laws: traction, stress, principal stress, momentum balance.
Constitutive relations: anisotropic linear elasticity, generalized Hooke's law.
Formulation: initial/boundary-value problem, virtual work, structural models.
Problem solving.
Elastodynamics.

References (holdings marks Neiman Library holdings)


Fung  & Tong, Classical and Computational Solid Mechanics, World Scientific, 2001. holdings holdings
Hjelmstad, Fundamentals of Structural Mechanics, 2nd Ed., Springer, 2005. holdings
Holtzapfel, Nonlinear Solid Mechanics, Wiley, 2000. holdings
Lai, Rubin, and Krempl, Introduction to Continuum Mechanics, Butterworth-Heinemann,2010. fulltext
Langhaar, Energy Methods in Applied Mechanics, Wiley, 1962. holdings
Oden, Mechanics of Elastic Structures, 2nd Ed., McGraw-Hill, 1981. holdings holdings
Timoshenko  & Goodier, Theory of Elasticity, 3rd Ed., McGraw-Hill, 1970. holdings holdings

Grading

Homework (to final) 0%
Final 100% (10/1/2022, 14:00)

Online Resources

Auxetics: negative Poisson's ratio.
Bower, Applied mechanics of solids.
Course mailing list <0540-5400-01@listserv.tau.ac.il>.
Elasticity (Wikiversity).
Israel Association for Computational Methods in Mechanics (IACMM-L).
Michell solution (Wikipedia).
Writing guides.

 



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