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  • 3.00 Credits

    Phenomenological nature of metals, yield criteria for 3-D states of stress, geometric representation of the yield surface. Levy-Mises and Prandtl-Reuss equations, associated and non-associated flow rules, Drucker's stability postulate and its consequences, consistency condition for nonhardening materials, strain hardening postulates. Elasticplastic boundary value problems. Computational techniques for treatment of small and finite plastic deformations. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Doctoral, Graduate Business, Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Armour College of Engineering College Mechl, Materials & Arspc Engrg Department
  • 3.00 Credits

    Analysis of stress and strain. Stress-strain relations. Two-dimensional problems in elasticity. Axisymmetrically loaded thick-walled cylinders and rotating disks. Plates and axisymmetrical shells. Energy methods. Torsion. Beams on elastic foundations. Unsymmetric bending of straight beams. Additional Prerequisite: An undergraduate course in mechanics of solids. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Doctoral, Graduate Business, Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Armour College of Engineering College Mechl, Materials & Arspc Engrg Department
  • 3.00 Credits

    Notion of stress and strain, field equations of linearized elasticity. Plane problems in rectangular and polar coordinates. Problems without a characteristic length. Plane problems in linear elastic fracture mechanics. Complex variable techniques, energy theorems, approximate numberical techniques. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Doctoral, Graduate Business, Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Armour College of Engineering College Mechl, Materials & Arspc Engrg Department
  • 3.00 Credits

    Continuation of MMAE 451/CAE 442. Covers the theory and practice of advanced finite element procedures. Topics include implicit and explicit time integration, stability of integration algorithms, unsteady heat conduction, treatment of plates and shells, small-strain plasticity, and treatment geometric nonlinearity. Practical engineering problems in solid mechanics and heat transfer are solved using MATLAB and commercial finite element software. Special emphasis is placed on proper time step and convergence tolerance selection, mesh design, and results interpretation. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Doctoral, Graduate Business, Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Armour College of Engineering College Mechl, Materials & Arspc Engrg Department
  • 3.00 Credits

    Analysis of the general state of stress and strain in solids; dynamic fracture tests (FAD, CAT). Linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM), Griffith-Irwin analysis, ASTM, KIC, KIPCI, KIA, KID. Plane stress, plane strain; yielding fracture mechanics (COD, JIC). Fatigue crack initiation. Goodman diagrams and fatigue crack propagation. Notch sensitivity and stress concentrations. Low-cycle fatigue, corrosion and thermal fatigue. Prerequisite: An undergraduate course in mechanics of solids. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Doctoral, Graduate Business, Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Armour College of Engineering College Mechl, Materials & Arspc Engrg Department
  • 3.00 Credits

    Analysis algorithm based on statistical fracture theory. Introduction to both conventional and extreme value statistics, combined stress theory, load redistribution models, and specimen testing and design. Design philosophies including structural reliability theory, destructive proof testing, and prestressing and segmenting. Applications to static design, thermal shock, and fragmentation of structures such as ceramic nose cones, leading edges, and machine tools. Prerequisite: An undergraduate course in mechanics of solids. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Doctoral, Graduate Business, Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Armour College of Engineering College Mechl, Materials & Arspc Engrg Department
  • 3.00 Credits

    Review of applied elasticity. Stress, strain and stress-strain relations. Basic equations and boundary value problems in plane elasticity. Methods of strain measurement and related instrumentation. Electrical resistance strain gauges, strain gauge circuits and recording instruments. Analysis of strain gauge data. Brittle coatings. Photoelasticity; photoelastic coatings; moir methods; interferometric methods. Applications of these methods in the laboratory. Prerequisite: An undergraduate course in mechanics of solids. 4. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours 2. 000 Lab hours Levels: Graduate Doctoral, Graduate Business, Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture/Lab, Lab, Lecture Armour College of Engineering College Mechl, Materials & Arspc Engrg Department
  • 3.00 Credits

    Survey of numerical methods as applied to FEM software. Database management, equation solvers, eigenvalue routines and schemes for direct integration (both implicit/explicit), all as employed in the development of a finite element program. Topics also covered include band and front minimizer, static and dynamic substructuring via superelements, and sensitivity studies. Same as CAE 534. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Doctoral, Graduate Business, Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Armour College of Engineering College Mechl, Materials & Arspc Engrg Department
  • 3.00 Credits

    Kinematics and inverse kinematics of manipulators. Newton-Euler dynamic formulation. Independent joint control. Trajectory and path planning using potential fields and probabilistic roadmaps. Adaptive control. Force control. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Doctoral, Graduate Business, Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Armour College of Engineering College Mechl, Materials & Arspc Engrg Department
  • 3.00 Credits

    Kinematics of rigid bodies. Rotating reference frames and coordinate transformations; Inertia dyadic. Newton-Euler equations of motion. Gyroscopic motion. Conservative forces and potential functions. Generalized coordinates and generalized forces. Lagrange's equations. Holonomic and nonholonomic constraints. Lagrange multipliers. Kane's equations. Elements of orbital and spacecraft dynamics. Additional Prerequisite: An undergraduate course in mechanics of solids. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Doctoral, Graduate Business, Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Armour College of Engineering College Mechl, Materials & Arspc Engrg Department
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