Advanced Structural Mechanics

Buckling: Columns (solid, thin-walled), flat sheets (compression, shear, bending, combined) Beam-columns. Laminated Composites: Classification, Constitutive Laws, introduction to Classical Laminate Theory with Applications. Introduction to Fatigue, S-N Curve, Miner’s Rule, Stress Concentration, introduction to Fracture Mechanics, Modes of Fracture, Fatigue Crack Growth. Experimental Techniques: Strain Gages & Associated Circuits; 2-D photo-elasticity, Calibration, Stress Separation