Course Catalog 2008-2009 Basic Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Course´s person responsible

Simo Virtanen

Implementations

	Lecture times and places	Target group recommended to
Implementation 1

Requirements

Exercises, team work and a written examination.
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Objectives

To give a general knowledge of different branches of Mechanics of Materials and to give the art of discussing the possibilities of materials and structures.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	State of stress and strain. Basic equations of linear elasticity theory. Constitutive relations of different materials. Introduction to finite element method. Introduction to plates and shells. Yield conditions for beams. Energy principles. Viscoelasticity. Introduction to fracture mechanics. Ceramic and composite structures.

Evaluation criteria for the course

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

Assessment scale:

Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course

Partial passing:

Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Study material

Type	Name	Author	ISBN	URL	Edition, availability, ...	Examination material	Language
Summary of lectures	Materiaalien mekaniikka	Simo Virtanen			Monistettavissa		Suomi

Prerequisites

Correspondence of content

More precise information per implementation

	Description	Methods of instruction	Implementation
Implementation 1			Contact teaching: 0 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 0 %

Last modified	01.07.2008
Modifier	Simo Virtanen