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  • 3.00 Credits

    Radiation properties; enclosure theory; radiation exchange between solid bodies; radiation exchange in the presence of absorbing, transmitting and emitting media; combined radiation, conduction and convection exchange.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Nucleate boiling in a pool; film boiling in a pool; forced nucleate boiling; forced film boiling; effect of impurities on boiling phenomena; dropwise condensation; filmwise condensation; effect of noncondensable gases on condensation; boiling and condensing processes in systems.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Practical criteria for analysis of conservative and nonconservative systems' stability; methods of adjacent equilibrium, initial imperfections, total potential energy and vibration as applied to practical problems. Preq: ME 8370.
  • 3.00 Credits

    An introduction to the essential mathematical foundations of continuum mechanics. Vectors and tensor analysis in cartesian coordinates, Lagrangian and Eularian descriptions of motion, kinematics of deformation and general deformation analysis, linearization, the concept of stress and the various stress measures, conservation laws, thermodynamics, constitutive equations, elasticity, material symmetry, fluids, viscoelasticity, hyperelasticity, and plasticity are covered.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Fundamental elasticity-based course in the development of the basic concepts of engineering fracture mechanics; the Griffith criterion, Barrenblatt and Dugdale models, linear elastic fracture mechanics (L.E.F.M.), plane strain fracture toughness, the crack-tip stress and strain field, and plasticity and the J-integral.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Theory of stress and deformation for continuous media; linear stress-strain relations for elastic material; two-dimensional problems including Airy stress function, polynomial solutions, plane stress and plane strain in rectangular and polar coordinates, torsion and bending of prismatic bars and thermal stresses.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Continuation of ME 8370, including topics from either three-dimensional problems associated with an infinite elastic medium, elastic half-space, contact stresses, symmetrically loaded sphere and circular cylinder, or complex variable methods in plane elasticity, stress concentrations problems, singular stresses and fracture, and composite materials. Preq: ME 8370 and PHYS 8120.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Introduction to the theory of plasticity. The formulation of constitutive laws; plastic stress-strain relations and associated flow rules; yield criteria and their experimental verification; hardening criteria; and crystal plasticity are covered.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Concepts in nonlinear dynamic systems with emphasis to mechanical systems. Classification, stability and bifurcations of equilibrium solutions. Analytical construction, stability and bifurcations of periodic solutions. Floquet theory, Poincare maps. Quasi-periodic solutions, Lyapunov exponents and routes to chaos. Pertubation and asymptotic methods for approximate analytical solutions of weakly nonlinear systems. Preq: ME 8460 or consent of instructor. Students who have not completed ME 8460 but have completed undergraduate courses in dynamics and differential equations should request a registration override from the instructor.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Vibrations of lumped-parameters systems - free and forced vibrations of SDOF and MDOF systems, general eigenvalue problem and modal analysis. Variational approach and energy methods. Vibrations of distributed-parameter systems - strings, bars, shafts, beams, membranes and plates. Approximate methods - Rayleigh's Quotient, Rayleigh-Ritz methods, method of functions expansion, Galerkin's and assumed mode methods. Preq: ME 8460 or consent of instructor. Students who have not completed ME 8460 but have completed an undergraduate course in vibration or in dynamics and differential equations, should request a registration override from the instructor.
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