Academic Catalog

ME547 INTRODUCTION TO CONTINUUM MECHANICS

Course Code: 5690547
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. HÜSNÜ DAL
Offered Semester: Fall and Spring Semesters.

Course Content

General aspects, basic assumptions. Development of mathematical tools. Kinematics of a continuum. Stresses. General principles. Theory of constitutive equations. Basic material laws. Curvilinear coordinate systems in tensors. (R)