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MATH 444Elasticity

Faculty
Mathematics
Last listed
1975–76

No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1966–67 to 1975–76; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.

Basic equations of elasticity for homogeneous isotropic bodies; bending of beams; plane elastic waves; Rayleigh surface waves, Love waves. Solution of problems by potentials, variational methods and Saint Venants’ principle. 2 hours lectures + I hour tutorial. Winter term Prerequisite: M445a

As printed in the 1973–74 to 1975–76 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 1966–67 to 1975–76, 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.

    1973–74 to 1975–76 3 calendars

    Basic equations of elasticity for homogeneous isotropic bodies; bending of beams; plane elastic waves; Rayleigh surface waves, Love waves. Solution of problems by potentials, variational methods and Saint Venants’ principle.

    2 hours lectures + I hour tutorial. Winter term Prerequisite: M445a

    1972–73 1 calendar

    Another title: 4516 Nonlinear Optimization-B, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).

    Faculty of Mathematics

    A study of recent mathematical programming algorithms that do not require differentiability. Unicyclic methods such as Simplex, and Complex; Simple Cyclic algorithms; conjugate directions of Powell; pattern search; lattice minimization with constraints, difference approximations to differentiable methods. Applications of optimization to linear and nonlinear least squares problems. Special topics and extensions. Recommended for graduate level nonlinear programming. 2 hours lectures. Prerequisites: Differential Calculus (237); Elementary Fortran.

    1966–67 to 1971–72 4 calendars

    Problems in stress and strain. Isotropic bodies. Equilibrium equations. Torsion and flexure. 2 lectures, Winter term.