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3.00 Credits
Mechanics of elastic heterogeneous solids. Plasticity of composite materials. Thermoelastic and thermoplastic behavior. Mechanics of distributed damage. Mechanical behavior. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: one graduate course in mechanics of solids. When Offered: Fall term annually. Cross Listed: Cross-listed as CIVL 6180. Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and CIVL 6180. Credit Hours: 3
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Preliminaries on linear, three-dimensional elasticity theory. Reduction of the elasticity theory to theories of plates and shells. Anisotropy. Nonlinear theories. Applications. When Offered: Annually. Cross Listed: Cross-listed as CIVL 6200. Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and CIVL 6200. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
Indicial and invariant notation, elements of variational calculus and nonlinear elasticity. Variational derivation of the linear stability equations for plates, rods, open thin-walled sections and cylindrical shells. Solutions of stability problems in each of these systems and development of approximation procedures. When Offered: Annually. Cross Listed: Cross-listed as CIVL 6210. Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and CIVL 6210. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
The coupled linear thermoelastic and generalized heat equations, as derived from irreversible thermodynamics. Solutions in terms of Boussinesq-Papkovitch potentials. Reduction of thermoelastic problems to isothermal elastic problems. Steady state and transient elastic, anelastic, and viscoelastic thermal-stress analysis. When Offered: Offered on sufficient demand. Credit Hours: 3
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Neural networks are program and memory at once, useful where traditional techniques fail, i.e., for artificial speech and image recognition. Emphasis on existing and emerging engineering applications. Parallel distributed processing, Hebb's rule, Hopfield net, back-propagation algorithm, perceptrons, unsupervised learning, Kohenen self-organizing map, genetic algorithms, neocognitron, adaline. Illustrated with computer programs and lectures. When Offered: Fall term alternate years. Cross Listed: Cross-listed as DSES 6870. Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and DSES 6870. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
General curvilinear coordinates, determinants, diagonalization of symmetric matrices, polar decomposition theorem. Description of finite deformation and motion, convected coordinates. Conservation equations, Cauchy and Piola-Kirchhoff stress tensors and equations of motion. Boundary conditions. Thermodynamics of continua, invariance principles, objective tensors. Constitutive equations, nonlinear elasticity, thermoelasticity, heat conducting fluids. Linearizations. Variational derivation of the equations of nonlinear elasticity. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: MANE 4330 or permission of instructor. When Offered: Fall term annually. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
Problems in isotropic linear elasticity. Torsion and flexure of bars. Plane stress and plane strain. The Boussinesq- Papkovitch potentials and their application to certain three-dimensional problems. Stress concentration and contact of elastic bodies. Dynamic potentials and wave equations. Propagation, reflection, and refraction of elastic waves. Vibrations of elastic bodies. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MANE 4330 or equivalent. When Offered: Offered on sufficient demand. Credit Hours: 3
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4.00 Credits
Consideration and control of the health hazards peculiar to the atomic industry. Radiological units; exposure control; shielding; fallout; toxic materials; shipping and storage; waste disposal; legal aspects. Introduction to criticality hazards. Nonionizing radiation. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: MANE 2400 or equivalent. When Offered: Offered on availability of faculty. Credit Hours: 4
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3.00 Credits
Reactor kinetics, stability, and control. Perturbation methods, reactivity coefficients; feedback mechanisms, long-term reactivity changes. Fission product effects on reactor startup and spatial stability. Fuel depletion. Theory of control and burnable poisons. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MANE 4480. When Offered: Fall term annually. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
Linear and nonlinear Boltzmann equations. Analytical solutions. Computer solution by P-N, S-N, diffusion, moments, integral, and Monte Carlo methods. Energy group averaging, scattering angle representation, and transport approximations. Perturbation and adjoint applications. Heavy ion and electron transport. Transport in interacting particle and photon systems. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MANE 4480. When Offered: Spring term alternate years. Credit Hours: 3
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