Organization

 

 

 

Faculty contact information:

 

Graduate TA contact information:

 

 

Textbooks and Reference Material:

There is no required text for this course: the main reference will be the online notes.  However, you may find it helpful to buy a textbook to provide a source of additional practice problems, as well as another perspective on the course content.

There are many textbooks on solid mechanics. Solid mechanics is a very large field, so most books that were adapted from someone's course notes choose some sub-set of topics to cover. Some books focus on math, continuum mechanics, and modeling the behavior of materials; there are entire books on the theory of elasticity and plasticity; many have a focus on structural applications and cover a lot of material on beams, plates, shells; while others focus on the finite element method, either from the perspective of developing an FEA code, or else from the perspective of using an FEA package.

• Fung and Tong, Classical and Computational Solid Mechanics, World Scientific. Very comprehensive and thorough text. Google Books>>   Amazon link>>

• Bower, Applied Mechanics of Solids, CRC, 2011. Not intended as a course textbook (contains few worked example problems) but includes all the material covered in ENGN1750 along with a lot of additional material. There is a free version online. Web version >>   Amazon link>>

• Ahmed Shabana Computational Continuum Mechanics, Wiley - Comprehensive; slightly different focus to what we cover in this class. Google Book >> Amazon link >>

• JP Ward Solid Mechanics - good discussion of vectors, tensors and elasticity but otherwise limited in scope. Springer link>>

• Rahgab and Bayouni Engineering Solid Mechanics. Good coverage of fundamentals, elasticity, plasticity, rods, plates and shells. No discussion of FEA. CRC link>> Google Books >> 

• Reddy JN An Introduction to the Finite Element Method, McGraw Hill Amazon Link >>

 

Class Schedule and Room Assignments:

Main Lectures:  10:30am-11:50am Tues/Thurs, Room 141 Barus-Holley

 

Faculty office hours, Barus-Holley 092 (starting Thurs Sept 12):

TA office hours (room B&H 092):

• TBA.

Grading Policy

Your final score in the course will be determined using the following algorithm

• Homework: 40%
• Midterm Exam: 15%
• Final Examination: 25%
• Final Project: 20%

 

We will follow the tenets of the Academic Honor Code of Brown University.  Honor code violations may result in loss of credit for the assignment involved, loss of credit for the course, or additional penalties as determined by the academic disciplinary committee.

 

Submitting work and collecting graded assignments

Please submit all homework solutions and project assignments on Canvas. They will be graded electronically using the rubrics listed with each assignment.

 

Grade change requests

If you find that your grades have been added incorrectly, or you would like a grade on your homework, examination or laboratory assignment reconsidered, please

• Fill out the regrade request form;
• If you are seeking a regrade for an exam, place a copy or the original of the homework/exam in question in the box marked `grade change requests' across from Ms. Gesualdi's desk on the 7th north floor of Barus-Holley.
• We will keep the assignment until final grades are being determined, and if your final grade is close enough to a grade borderline for the change to have any effect the assignment will be re-graded.

 

Collaboration Policy

Homeworks: You may work on homework problems as a group.  However, any work submitted for grading must represent work done by the person who will receive credit for the assignment.  It is not acceptable for two students to submit identical copies of a homework problem.  It is not acceptable for one student to copy work previously done by another.  

Design Projects: On group design projects it is important for all team members to bear an equal share of the work involved in the project. Individual reports should be the work  

Examinations: No collaboration of any kind is permitted on examinations.