Course Catalog 2007-2008

TME-3206 MECHANICS OF COMPOSITE STRUCTURES, 6 cr
Mechanics of Composite Structures

Courses persons responsible
Simo Virtanen

Lecturers
Simo Virtanen

Implementations
Person responsible: Simo Virtanen
  Period 1 Period 2 Period 3 Period 4 Period 5 Summer
Lecture 3 h/week 3 h/week 2 h/week - - -
Exercise 2 h/week 2 h/week 2 h/week - - -
Exam  
(Timetable for academic year 2007-2008)

Objectives
Student knows the basics of the mechanical behaviour of laminated plates and shells. More over student is able to analyse composite structures.

Content
Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. Analysis and optimization of laminated fiber-reinforced composites. The basic constitutive equations of ortotropic material. Fundamentals of macro and micromechanical theory of ply. Tension, compression and bending problems of laminated structures.       

Requirements for completing the course
Exercises and a written examination.

Evaluation criteria for the course

  • Passed written examination or written intermediate examinations and accepted exercises.

  • Used assessment scale is numeric (1-5)

    • Study material
    Type Name Auhor ISBN URL Edition, availability... Exam material Language
    Book Stress Analysis of Fiber-Reinforced Composite Materials M., W., Hyer     McGraw-Hill, 1998. No  English 
    Book Mechanics and Analysis of Composite Materials V., V., Vasiliev and E., Morozov     Elsevier, 2001. No  English 

    Prerequisites
    Code Course Credits M/R
    TME-2100 TME-2100 Mechanics of Materials 5 Recommendable

    Prequisite relations (Sign up to TUT Intranet required)

    Remarks

  • Partial passing of course must be in connection with the same round of implementation.

  • The course is suitable for postgraduate studies.

    • Distance learning

  • ITC utilized during the course

    • - In information distribution via homepage, newsgroups or mailing lists, e.g. current issues, timetables
    - In distributing and/or returning exercise work, material etc

  • Estimate as a percentage of the implementation of the course

    • - Contact teaching: 47 %
    - Distance learning: 0 %
    - Proportion of a student's independent study: 53 %

    Scaling
    Methods of instructionHours
    Lectures 67.5
    Exercises 60
    Assignments 32
    Total sum 159.5

    Correspondence of content
    TME-3200 Mechanics of Composite Structures

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    Last modified 30.04.2007
    Modified byTapio Salmi