MA5220 CONTINUUM MECHANICS


Course Details

Algebra of Cartesian Tensors, Index notation, Isotropic tensors, Invariants of a tensor, Polar decomposition theorem.
Course contents: Continuum Hypothesis, Kinematics of deformation, Compatibility conditions, Balance principles, Euler's laws of motion, Stress-Laws of Thermodynamics, Energy Balance, Constitutive equations of fluids and elastic materials, principles of material objectivity, Applications (simple problems of fluid dynamics and elasticity)

Course References:

Books:
D.S. Chandrasekhraiah and Loknath Debnath, Contiuum Mechanics, Academic Press (1995)