Continuum Mechanics

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Department of Mechanics, Biomechanics and Mechatronics

Synopsis:

Elementar continuum mechanics-kinematics and fundamental laws. Mechanics of solids-thermoelasticity, hypoelasticity, objective rates. Inviscid and viscous fluids flow, shock waves. Examples.

Requirements:

Elementar courses of mechanics, elasticity and strength of materials, fluid dynamics and thermodynamics. Mathematics-analysis, tensor calculus.

Syllabus of lectures:

-Kinematics: Lagrangean and Eulerean descriptions, deformation gradient, multiplicative decomposition, strain tensors, material derivative, velocity gradient.

-Fundamental laws: mass conservation, balance of linear and angular momentum, balance of energy, entropy, Clausius-Duhem inequality, dissipation inequality.

-Mechanics of solids:coupled problem of thermo-elasticity and heat conduction under finite strains, hypo-elasticity, objective rates (Jaumann, Green-Naghdi, Oldroyd).

-Mechanics of fluids: inviscid flow (Euler), shock waves (Hugoniot), viscous flow (Newton-Stokes, Navier-Stokes, Reynolds).

-More than 120 worked out examples.

Syllabus of tutorials:

Introduction of continuum mechanics as general frame for description of mechanical response of bodies. Formulation of basic laws and their application on particular problems of solid and fluid dynamics.

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Study materials:

[1]Chandrasekharaiah, D.S., Lokenath Debnath: Continuum Mechanics. Academic Press, San Diego 1994.

[2] Gurtin, M.E.: An Introduction to Continuum Mechanics. Academic Press, San Diego 1981

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