TAM 545

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Advanced Continuum Mechanics

Credit: 4 hours.

Unified treatment of modern continuum mechanics: mathematical preliminaries; review of kinematics and general balance laws; general theory of mechanical constitutive equations, including material constraints and material symmetry.

Prerequisite: TAM 551.

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TAM 545 class schedule data for fall 2006
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	47683	Lecture-Discussion	G	3:00PM -4:50PM	TF	Talbot Laboratory	Starzewski, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/23/06-12/08/06 Section Info: Additions to course outline: Review of principles, key results and relative advantages of rational continuum mechanics, thermomechanics with internal variables, and rational extended thermomechanics. Introduciton to non-classical and/or coupled field theories: classical versus generalized thermoelasticity, quasi-continuum, lattice/particle-based theories, Cosserat-type models of solids and fluids, strain-gradient and non-local models, magnetoelasticity, piezoelectricity, thermodiffusion. Singular surfaces and waves.