CIVE 526Continuum Mechanics
- Faculty
- Engineering
- Last listed
- 1977–78
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1972–73 to 1977–78; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Mathematical preliminaries: Co-ordinate transformations, cartesian tensors, tensor fields, integral theorems; Analysis of stress, strain and rate of deformation. Fundamental laws: Conservation of mass, momentum, moment of momentum and energy. Constituitive equations: Application to specific continua. Civ E 534+ Model Analysis of Engineering Structures Not offered 1977-78
As printed in the 1976–77 to 1977–78 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
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In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1972–73 to 1977–78, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1976–77 to 1977–78 2 calendars
Mathematical preliminaries: Co-ordinate transformations, cartesian tensors, tensor fields, integral theorems; Analysis of stress, strain and rate of deformation. Fundamental laws: Conservation of mass, momentum, moment of momentum and energy. Constituitive equations: Application to specific continua.
Civ E 534+ Model Analysis of Engineering Structures Not offered 1977-78
Not in the 1975–76 calendar.
1972–73 to 1974–75 3 calendars
An introduction to the analysis of continuum. Vectors, Cartesian tensors; tensors of stress, strain and strain rate for a continuum; laws of motion-conservation of mass, momentum integral, kinetic equation of state, first and second laws of thermodynamics; linear elasticity — equations of equilibrium and compatibility, superposition principle, extension and flexure of beams, plane elasticity; plasticity — idealized behaviour, yield conditions and surfaces, plastic potential theory, hardening hypothesis, Hencky’s theory, slip line theory; linear viscoelasticity; viscoelastic models, creep, relaxation, hereditary integrals.