MECH&AE M256A
Linear Elasticity
Description: (Same as Civil Engineering M230A.) Lecture, four hours; outside study, eight hours. Requisite: course 156A or 166A. Linear elastostatics. Cartesian tensors; infinitesimal strain tensor; Cauchy stress tensor; strain energy; equilibrium equations; linear constitutive relations; plane elastostatic problems, holes, corners, inclusions, cracks; three-dimensional problems of Kelvin, Boussinesq, and Cerruti. Introduction to boundary integral equation method. Letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Fall 2020 - Prof. Mal is a lenient grader. Although his TA may tell you this course does not have any curve, but Prof. Mal will make most students get at least B-. If according to our real grade in mid and final, more than 50% of students will get less than B. The mean grades of midterm are around 76% (for MS/PhD) and 62% (for MSOL). The course slides were produced in 2008 and contain many errors. The lectures were recorded in 2014. Maybe due to the COVID, the class experience is not good. We only meet Prof. Mal two times in mid review and final review. Office hours are conducted by TA. The regular lectures have been recorded and no live meeting...Frankly speaking, even if you go over the lecture recordings, you still can't solve the hw. The TA office hour is the place where I learned most things. Prof. Mal is a good man. Maybe his in-prison class will be better.
Fall 2020 - Prof. Mal is a lenient grader. Although his TA may tell you this course does not have any curve, but Prof. Mal will make most students get at least B-. If according to our real grade in mid and final, more than 50% of students will get less than B. The mean grades of midterm are around 76% (for MS/PhD) and 62% (for MSOL). The course slides were produced in 2008 and contain many errors. The lectures were recorded in 2014. Maybe due to the COVID, the class experience is not good. We only meet Prof. Mal two times in mid review and final review. Office hours are conducted by TA. The regular lectures have been recorded and no live meeting...Frankly speaking, even if you go over the lecture recordings, you still can't solve the hw. The TA office hour is the place where I learned most things. Prof. Mal is a good man. Maybe his in-prison class will be better.
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