General Principles of Mechanics

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Department of Mechanics

Synopsis:

Tensors, operators and their application in mechanics. General structure of the basic equations of linear and nonlinear statics and dynamics, energy and duality. Principle of virtual work (power), variational principles (Lagrange, Castigliano, Hellinger-Reissner, Hu-Washizu, Hamilton) and their application to particle models, beams, frames, plates and walls. Thermodynamic description of inelastic deformation of materials, principle of maximum dissipation.

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no prerequisities

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Study Objective:

Students will get acquainted with the general structure of discrete, continuum and discretized models used in linear and nonlinear statics and dynamics.

Study materials:

1. Bittnar Z., Šejnoha J.: Numerické metody mechaniky 1, 2, Vydavatelství ČVUT, Praha 1992

2. Jirásek M., Bažant, Z.P.: Inelastic Analysis of Structures, Wiley 2001.

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