Academic Catalog

ME543 THEORY OF ELASTICITY

Course Code: 5690543
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
Course Coordinator: Prof.Dr. SERKAN DAÐ
Offered Semester: Fall and Spring Semesters.

Course Content

Analysis of stress and strain. Constitutive equations. Plane problems of elasticity. Torsion and flexure of beams. Variational methods, theorems of minimum potential energy and complementary energy. Approximate solution by means of variational methods. Introduction to plate theory. (F)