Spring 2006 Course Syllabus
Course: 0574.001.
Course Title: Continuum Mechanics.
Time: Tue, Th 11:40-1:00.
Place: WH 617.
Instructor: Grabovsky, Yury.
Instructor Office: WH 516.
Instructor Email: yury.grabovsky@temple.edu
Instructor Phone: 204-1650.
Office Hours: By appointment.
Prerequisites: A graduate course in analysis, linear algebra, PDE and functional analysis.
Textbook: No text.
Course Goals: To review the foundations of non-linear elasticity. To understand the nature of various modes of instability and to model metastability and hysteresis in martensitic phase transformations. We will also discuss the vectorial version of calculus of variations.
Topics Covered: his is a classical subject that has recently received a lot of interest in the research community because of its relevance to phase transformations in shape memory alloys. In spite of its age, there are still many fundamental unaswered questions and new progress is being made at this very moment by applying the newly developed mathematical tools. The second semester will focus on the variational principles governing solid bodies at the thermodynamic equilibrium. The topics include 1. Constitutive inequalities and convexity 2. Rods and plates as three-dimensional bodies (recent breakthrough) 3. Multiple integrals in calculus of variations (recent breakthrough).
Course Grading: Class participation 100%.
Exam Dates: No exams.
Attendance Policy: Students are required to attend all lectures.
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