 Academic Year:
| 2012/3 |
| Owning Department/School:
| Department of Mathematical Sciences |
| Credits:
| 6 |
| Level:
| Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
| Period: |
Semester 2
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| Assessment:
| EX 100% |
| Supplementary Assessment: | MA40049 Mandatory Extra Work (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
| Before taking this unit you must take MA40065 |
| Description:
| Aims:
To provide an introduction to the mathematical modelling of the behaviour of elastic materials.
Learning Outcomes:
Students should be able to derive the governing equations of the theory of elasticity and be able to solve simple problems.
Skills:
Problem Solving T/F A
Written and Spoken Communication F (solutions to exercise sheets, problem classes)
Content:
Revision: Kinematics of deformation, stress analysis, global balance laws, boundary conditions.
Further topics will be chosen from the following:
Constitutive laws: Properties of real materials; constitutive law for isotropic elasticity, Lame moduli; field equations of elasticity; Young's modulus, Poisson's ratio. Elastostatics: Strain energy function; uniqueness theorem; Betti's reciprocal theorem, mean value theorems; variational principles, application to composite materials; torsion of cylinders, Prandtl's stress function. Some simple problems of elastostatics: Expansion of a spherical shell, bulk modulus; deformation of a block under gravity; elementary bending solution.
Elastodynamics: Basic equations and general solutions; plane waves in unbounded media, simple reflection problems; surface waves.
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Programme availability:
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MA40049 is Compulsory on the following programmes:
Department of Physics
- USXX-AFM01 : MSci (hons) Mathematics and Physics (Full-time) - Year 4
MA40049 is Optional on the following programmes:
Department of Mathematical Sciences
- USMA-AFB15 : BSc (hons) Mathematical Sciences (Full-time) - Year 3
- USMA-AKB16 : BSc (hons) Mathematical Sciences (Full-time with Thick Sandwich Placement) - Year 4
- USMA-AAB16 : BSc (hons) Mathematical Sciences with Study Year Abroad (Full-time with Study Year Abroad) - Year 4
- USMA-AFB13 : BSc (hons) Mathematics (Full-time) - Year 3
- USMA-AKB14 : BSc (hons) Mathematics (Full-time with Thick Sandwich Placement) - Year 4
- USMA-AFB01 : BSc (hons) Mathematics and Statistics (Full-time) - Year 3
- USMA-AKB02 : BSc (hons) Mathematics and Statistics (Full-time with Thick Sandwich Placement) - Year 4
- USMA-AAB02 : BSc (hons) Mathematics and Statistics with Study Year Abroad (Full-time with Study Year Abroad) - Year 4
- USMA-AAB14 : BSc (hons) Mathematics with Study Year Abroad (Full-time with Study Year Abroad) - Year 4
- USMA-AFB05 : BSc (hons) Statistics (Full-time) - Year 3
- USMA-AKB06 : BSc (hons) Statistics (Full-time with Thick Sandwich Placement) - Year 4
- USMA-AAB06 : BSc (hons) Statistics with Study Year Abroad (Full-time with Study Year Abroad) - Year 4
- USMA-AFM14 : MMath Mathematics (Full-time) - Year 3
- USMA-AFM14 : MMath Mathematics (Full-time) - Year 4
- USMA-AAM15 : MMath Mathematics with Study Year Abroad (Full-time with Study Year Abroad) - Year 4
- TSMA-AFM09 : MSc Mathematical Sciences (Full-time) - Year 1
- TSMA-APM09 : MSc Mathematical Sciences (Part-time) - Year 1
- TSMA-APM09 : MSc Mathematical Sciences (Part-time) - Year 2
- TSMA-AFM08 : MSc Modern Applications of Mathematics (Full-time) - Year 1
- TSMA-AFL02 : PG Dip Modern Applications of Mathematics (Full-time) - Year 1
Department of Physics
- USXX-AFB03 : BSc (hons) Mathematics and Physics (Full-time) - Year 3
- USXX-AKB04 : BSc (hons) Mathematics and Physics with Placement (Full-time with Thick Sandwich Placement) - Year 4
- USXX-AAB04 : BSc (hons) Mathematics and Physics with Study Year Abroad (Full-time with Study Year Abroad) - Year 4
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